My bot restarts more than I'd like. RPC connections die under load. Blockhashes go stale after a minute or so. A leader rotation makes the previous tip-routing assumptions wrong. I push a config tweak...
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My bot restarts more than I'd like. RPC connections die under load. Blockhashes go stale after a minute or so. A leader rotation makes the previous tip-routing assumptions wrong. I push a config tweak...
I keep catching myself saying things like "this part is fast enough" while I work on the bot. Every time the words leave my mouth, I feel a little jolt of doubt, because the more time I spend reading ...
I flip on a fresh gRPC client, point it at a Yellowstone-compatible endpoint, and run the bot. Nothing comes back. Not a connection refused, not a DNS failure, not the kind of error that tells you to ...
I'm rewriting the hot path of my Solana MEV bot in Rust, and the first wall I hit isn't the borrow checker. It's `Cargo.toml`. On paper, Cargo is the cleanest dependency manager I've used. One file, o...
I'm a few weeks into rewriting parts of my Solana MEV bot in Rust, and the same two crate names keep showing up in every file I touch: `serde` and `borsh`. They both have derive macros that look almos...
It is mid-afternoon, my coffee has gone cold, and I am staring at a terminal where `cargo build --release` has been running for almost six minutes. I changed exactly one line. I added a single field t...
I am partway through porting the bot from Python to Rust, and I just opened a pull request that deletes more lines than it adds — by a wide margin. A whole module that had been roughly two hundred lin...
A week into rewriting parts of the bot in Rust, the compiler and I are not on speaking terms. Every time I think I have a clean refactor, the borrow checker hits me with a wall of red. Sometimes it's ...
If you have spent a few years writing Python, the syntax of Rust's async/await looks reassuring. There is an `async fn`, there is a `.await`, there is even a function called `main` that you can mark a...
For weeks I treated Tokio as wallpaper. I slapped `#[tokio::main]` on `fn main`, sprinkled `.await` wherever the compiler complained, and got back to the part of the bot I cared about — finding cycles...
Every time the bot misbehaves, the same question surfaces in the back of my head: did I pick the right language? It is the kind of doubt that follows any individual developer competing against well-ca...
I keep running into the same wall. The bot is humming, the strategy is correct, the math checks out — and yet, when I add a second worker thread to chase a hot opportunity, things actually get *worse*...
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My bot restarts more than I'd like. RPC connections die under load. Blockhashes go stale after a minute or so. A leader rotation makes the previous tip-routing assumptions wrong. I push a config tweak...
It is mid-afternoon, my coffee has gone cold, and I am staring at a terminal where `cargo build --release` has been running for almost six minutes. I changed exactly one line. I added a single field t...
I am partway through porting the bot from Python to Rust, and I just opened a pull request that deletes more lines than it adds — by a wide margin. A whole module that had been roughly two hundred lin...
A week into rewriting parts of the bot in Rust, the compiler and I are not on speaking terms. Every time I think I have a clean refactor, the borrow checker hits me with a wall of red. Sometimes it's ...
If you have spent a few years writing Python, the syntax of Rust's async/await looks reassuring. There is an `async fn`, there is a `.await`, there is even a function called `main` that you can mark a...
For weeks I treated Tokio as wallpaper. I slapped `#[tokio::main]` on `fn main`, sprinkled `.await` wherever the compiler complained, and got back to the part of the bot I cared about — finding cycles...
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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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