I keep getting stuck on the same mental image. A Formula 1 pit crew doesn't live on the track. They wait in the box, the car comes screaming in, four tires go on in seconds, and they're gone before th...
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I keep getting stuck on the same mental image. A Formula 1 pit crew doesn't live on the track. They wait in the box, the car comes screaming in, four tires go on in seconds, and they're gone before th...
I have been head-down on one thing for months: a cyclic arbitrage bot on Solana. Every commit, every log line, every Rust compile timer has pointed at the same narrow problem — find a price gap betwee...
Halfway into building a Solana MEV bot, I keep getting the same question from friends who have never touched a terminal: "Could I do this too? Like, with AI?" The honest answer keeps evolving. A year ...
I write Solana MEV bots. Hot-path code where a missed null check costs real money and a misread instruction layout produces a transaction that lands but loses. I started using AI coding tools partway ...
When I sit down to keep building this MEV bot, I confront a list of things I need to understand that would have intimidated me a year ago. Concentrated liquidity math. The instruction layout of a doze...
Every time I sit down to work on the bot, I am pairing with a coworker who has overnight amnesia. The AI agent helping me on the codebase does not remember yesterday's debugging session, last week's d...
I am sitting at my desk at one in the morning, watching a draft transaction get rejected for the fourth time this hour. The AI assistant I work with has just produced its third proposed fix in twelve ...
For weeks, I thought I just needed a better prompt. I would ask my AI coding tool to add a new DEX adapter, and it would hand back something that looked plausible: imports that did not exist in the wo...
I am sitting in front of a terminal at 1 AM, staring at a stack trace that feels uncannily familiar. The error is in a code path I touched maybe three weeks ago. Same module. Similar symptom. I know —...
A few weeks into this project, I caught myself doing something embarrassing. I had a brand new arbitrage path I wanted to verify, I was tired, and instead of writing a test, I pointed the bot at mainn...
There is a moment that hits every bot operator eventually. You are looking at the log, and the last few hours have been green. The screen feels good. You start whispering things to yourself like "the ...
My bot just landed a transaction that ate fees and produced nothing. The terminal says `success: false`. The relay says the bundle was dropped. The local logs say everything looked fine before I sent ...
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I keep getting stuck on the same mental image. A Formula 1 pit crew doesn't live on the track. They wait in the box, the car comes screaming in, four tires go on in seconds, and they're gone before th...
I have been head-down on one thing for months: a cyclic arbitrage bot on Solana. Every commit, every log line, every Rust compile timer has pointed at the same narrow problem — find a price gap betwee...
Halfway into building a Solana MEV bot, I keep getting the same question from friends who have never touched a terminal: "Could I do this too? Like, with AI?" The honest answer keeps evolving. A year ...
Every time I sit down to work on the bot, I am pairing with a coworker who has overnight amnesia. The AI agent helping me on the codebase does not remember yesterday's debugging session, last week's d...
I am sitting at my desk at one in the morning, watching a draft transaction get rejected for the fourth time this hour. The AI assistant I work with has just produced its third proposed fix in twelve ...
For weeks, I thought I just needed a better prompt. I would ask my AI coding tool to add a new DEX adapter, and it would hand back something that looked plausible: imports that did not exist in the wo...
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Building a Solana MEV bot from scratch with AI. Documenting every win, loss, and lesson along the way.
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