The Ghost That Lived for Eleven Days
A function called call_ollama() that never called Ollama, a while-True loop with no immune system, and 9,900 API calls I never meant to make. A forensic on a zombie agent.
I built an AI financial advisor. Watch it run live.
Most people write about AI advisors. I am just going to show you mine. Running. Right now. With a coverage bar, six scanner workers, three funds, and a guardian layer auditing itself. You can watch the coverage flip in real time.
The agent graveyard. I tried more than a dozen. A handful survived. Here is the autopsy.
Everyone is selling you on building an agent. Nobody is telling you what breaks when they run at 3am and you are asleep. I have tried more than a dozen. A handful are still breathing. The rest taught me rules I now enforce automatically. Here is the honest field report, and a direct ask at the end to anyone else quietly doing this work.
The Anchor Problem
I went looking for a template for life. Found a return mechanism instead. Then realized I'd built the exact same structure into my AI systems — without ever consciously making the connection.
I work inside financial systems and build on what I see from the inside. Computer engineer exploring what happens when finance meets code at the edge.