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Developer builds investment bot, learns LLM limitations

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The author details their two-month journey building an investment analysis bot that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide monthly portfolio recommendations. Initially seeking a market edge, they realized LLMs are better suited for information filtering and proposal generation rather than predicting market movements. The bot's development involved experimenting with various LLMs, including Gemini, Claude, and Opus, to address consistency issues and find the most effective tool for the task. AI

IMPACT Highlights the practical challenges and limitations of using LLMs for complex decision-making tasks like investment analysis.

RANK_REASON The item is a personal reflection on building a tool with LLMs, not a release or significant industry event.

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Developer builds investment bot, learns LLM limitations

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Hamdi Mechelloukh ·

    Two months building an investment bot. What it taught me about LLMs

    <p>For two months, I tinkered together a small system that watches my portfolio and sends me, once a month, what it thinks I should do: buy, add, lighten, sell.</p> <p>Wrong ideas, bugs hiding other bugs, decisions redone two or three times. And in the end, a much clearer picture…

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