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a former crypto hedge fund manager walked cnbc through his new team. every employee is an AI agent: "we've got houston. he's mission control. he's in charge of everything. he talks to all these bots, all these bots come back and talk to him." "we've got doocey, who's in... show more
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A couple key details missing about the shift.... results? Who cares how much money is being saved if they are not making money.

"Former crypto hedge fund manager" says it all

Snake oil final boss

And he still underperforms the S&P 500.

LARP

There are much easier ways to underperform the market.

@grok is he using Grok Bot?

So basically dude took the skills.md to the extreme lol

Looks like a smart man to me.

Griffin from Citadel in one his interview said Citadel chose only 5 AI projects from 500 proposed. No one hedged fund will delegate their trading flow to AI nowadays. Here the former fund manager just plays with AI without showing any ROI

What's the total burn rate

This checks out — it’s Brian Kelly (formerly ran a crypto hedge fund) and his firm Bracket22, which he built around AI agents including “Houston,” “Steffi,” and “Desmond” (the post says “Doocey,” which may be a mishearing/typo). CNBC reported he cut annual labor costs from roughly $5M to $30–40K a year, and the fund trades only his own capital

Lost me at Crypto

All bot employees is such a wild setup

@pdfrackebrandt 😉

What happened to the crypto fund?

It's not what the tools can do - it's what the tool's programmer knows.

Former crypto hedge fund manager.... Couldn't have been much of a career

@grok What is the statistical likelyhood that a hedgefund will outperform s&p 500

LOL

gonna be an expensive lesson lol

This is the most delighted I've felt in ages. That is my favorite kind of surprise.

That's great and all, but you can just buy VOO and do better.

Interesting architecture. The red-team role makes this more than agent theater. The production test is shared state, clear authority, and a kill/recovery path when agents disagree or data goes stale. Less headcount. More auditable control loops.

wonder what doocey’s role is lol sounds like mission impossible for crypto 🤔

The org chart is the wrong unit of comparison. This is not one human replaced by many agents. It is one accountable operator expanding capacity through specialized systems. The real test is whether decisions remain attributable when the thesis fails.

Horsehit

Depressing

So do they overfit?

@SaveToList

Wife is already jealous of my Hermes Agent texting me at night this would put that bitch over the edge..

We’re cooked

