The Dark Side of Coding With AI

0:00Here's the dark side

0:01of coding with AI

0:02that nobody really talks

0:04about So for context

0:06I'm a software engineer

0:07and for the past

0:08six years I've developed

0:10an entire system from

0:12scratch And thanks to

0:14the help of AI

0:15tools like Claude Code

0:17and Codex I've written

0:18nearly 3 million lines

0:21of source code This

0:23does not include random

0:25text files This does

0:26not include documentation This

0:28is 3 million lines

0:30of actual source code

0:33And because of these

0:34AI tools the system

0:35I built actually works

0:37end to end and

0:39is extremely extensive It

0:41includes an iOS app

0:43that will be launching

0:44on the App Store

0:45soon It includes a

0:46production ready AI agent

0:47that I started building

0:49before tools like Codex

0:51even existed I started

0:54building my AI agent

0:55before Claude Code existed

0:58And now everyone is

0:59using Claude Code and

1:00Cursor and Codex I

1:01started building my AI

1:02agent from day one

1:04when GPT-3 was just

1:05released

1:05And now I have

1:06a actual working AI

1:09agent that can create

1:11profitable trading strategies Right

1:13now I'm actually fine

1:15tuning my own agent

1:16on Qwen And I'm

1:18going to use it

1:19to launch an army

1:20of trading bots that

1:22actually work I could

1:24not have done this

1:25without AI but there's

1:27a dark side to

1:28coding with AI that

1:29I don't know what

1:29I'm talking about and

1:30it's really heavy on

1:31my chest right now

1:32The dark side is

1:33this AI makes creating

1:35software so easy that

1:36you want to create

1:37all the software you

1:38can You know the

1:39scope increased for my

1:40app for building trading

1:42strategies that work on

1:43open high and low

1:44close data to building

1:46profitable options trading bots

1:48that works on minute

1:49by minute historical data

1:52So I can perform

1:53a back test to

1:53see how did this

1:54options trading strategy perform

1:56during COVID How did

1:57this options trading strategy

1:58perform in the past

2:00six months Is it

2:01robust over time Questions

2:03like this

2:03And because I did

2:04all this work and

2:05built all these systems

2:06it is a nightmare

2:07to maintain some of

2:08the code I

2:10can't maintain without AI

2:11Some of the code

2:12I don't actually know

2:13what it does Not

2:14the critical path right

2:15Not like how the

2:16AI agents work or

2:17how the back testing

2:18work or how the

2:19live trading work but

2:20things like the data

2:21hydration How do I

2:22actually get the source

2:23data transform it to

2:24a format my platform

2:25understands and uploads that

2:27to my blob stores

2:28How does all that

2:29actually work end to

2:31end I don't really

2:32know I know the

2:33high level architecture but

2:34I don't know the

2:35code So when it

2:35breaks I have to

2:37rely on AI So

2:38I can't just open

2:39the code and figure

2:40out what's breaking I

2:41have to use AI

2:42tools

2:42And at my peak

2:44I've spent over $800

2:46per month on just

2:48the coding tools I've

2:50spent $6,000 last month

2:54on compute Like I

2:56don't have like venture

2:58backing I had to

2:59use it out of

2:59my savings account

3:00And just to keep

3:02the lights on I'm

3:03going to be spending

3:04a minimum of $3,000

3:06per month every month

3:08until I decide to

3:10shut the app down

3:10or it's just forever

3:12you know $3,000 per

3:14month minimum

3:15And it's expensive I

3:17get alerts every single

3:18day that have to

3:20be fixed I have

3:21to spend all this

3:22money and I'm just

3:23burnt out building it

3:25like I don't want

3:26to shut it down

3:27Because I use it

3:28every single day but

3:29I'm burnt out having

3:30to maintain all of

3:32this code It's so

3:34much Code it's just

3:36so much to maintain

3:38This went from a

3:39project that cost me

3:40maybe $1,000 to $2,000

3:43per month on this

3:44worst days to costing

3:45me $3,000, $4,000, $5,000

3:48per month for the

3:49rest of my life

3:50It's a lot It's

3:51a ton to maintain

3:53It's exhausting You don't

3:54know how exhausted I

3:55am waking up to

3:5620 alerts because something

3:58broke at midnight

3:59So if you're building

4:00a project especially by

4:01yourself especially if it's

4:03just a little side

4:04hustle don't be consumed

4:06with how much AI

4:07lets you build Build

4:08the minimum version you

4:10can that satisfies your

4:12wants and needs You

4:13don't want to spend

4:15$3, $4, $5, $6,000

4:16per month on compute

4:17I promise you you

4:18don't You don't want

4:18to wake up to

4:1930 alerts and you

4:20figure that you've realized

4:21that there was a

4:22lot of contention in

4:23your backtesting system So

4:24these backtests took on

4:25average 71 minutes when

4:27they should have took

4:28100 seconds and that

4:29cost you $300 You

4:31don't want to wake

4:32up to those types

4:33of alerts

4:34It's it's exhausting