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Accept $175,000 for a Senior Software Engineer Role?
Austin shares an upcoming software engineering job and responds to earlier TikTok comments about accepting $175,000 for a senior position. The original scr
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AI Options Strategy: Build With Aurora, Test on Unseen Data
Watch Aurora turn a watchlist screenshot into inspectable trading rules, compare backtests, run walk-forward tests, and connect an existing Public brokerage.
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Copy My Exact AI Trading Setup (Just a Laptop and Internet)
The exact AI trading setup behind my $26K Robinhood account: NexusTrade MCP + an agentic coding tool + my Public Portfolio Challenge repo. Just a laptop and internet.
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Can AI Improve Qwen by Editing Its Weights?
Direct Qwen3.5-9B weight editing with Codex: the saved checkpoints, random controls, a repetition-loop fix and the actual nine-case grading results.
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GEM Fellowship: How I Got a Full Ride to CMU for Software Engineering
How Austin Starks used the GEM Fellowship for a full ride to CMU's software engineering master's, plus where to begin the GEM and CMU applications.
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I built an AI trading agent. Try it free for 3 months.
Watch Austin demonstrate NexusTrade, Aurora, and his public portfolio challenges. Claim three months free with the October offer.
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Robinhood Agents Was Missing Backtesting. So I Built the Solution.
See how AI-created rules run through historical backtesting, then paper trading and a connected Robinhood account before moving live.
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I built an AI trading agent. Try it free for 3 months.-20102026
Watch Austin demonstrate NexusTrade, Aurora, and his public portfolio challenges. Claim three months free with the October offer.
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AI Makes Doing the Impossible Possible
Austin explains how AI expanded the software he could build alone, using options backtesting and a large headline-research workload as examples. The animat
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Can news become a trading signal? Part 1: the methodology
How NexusTrade turns millions of headlines into company-specific sentiment: Qwen, DeBERTa, validation and archive-scoring costs.
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How to Pass the AI Coding Interview at Big Tech Companies
How to pass the AI coding interview: understand the codebase with a diagram, plan, review the plan out loud, and finish with test-driven development.
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AI Makes the Impossible Possible: The Original Recording
In the original camera recording, Austin discusses how AI changes the scope of projects a solo software engineer can attempt, including options backtesting
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AI Trading Agents: 3 Safeguards Before Your First Live Trade
Watch three AI trading safeguards in action: manual approval, an event trail that explains a buy/sell loop, and a daily allowance for automatic trade actions.
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Got a SWE Job Offer?: Here’s How to Ask for More
How I approach negotiating a software engineering job offer: interview preparation, competing offers, expressing enthusiasm and asking for a higher compensation package. I walk through the conversation and the response.
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The AI Coding Interview: Can You Build Beyond a Demo?
I walk through an AI coding interview: inspect an unfamiliar repository, explain its architecture, plan a bug fix or feature, write the failing test first, and verify the result. Explain what the tool changed and how you know it works.
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Find Better SWE Jobs: Let Codex Help You Apply
Use your résumé and job preferences to research suitable software engineering roles with Codex. Build a list of companies, work through applications, and write company-specific answers together.
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Stop Getting Ignored: Build a Resume That Stands Out
Build a software engineering résumé with clear experience, measurable impact and two independent AI reviews. Apply the same process to LinkedIn and GitHub.
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No Internship Yet?: Build Experience That Counts
Build experience for your first software engineering role through substantial projects, open-source contributions, research work, hackathons and internships. Learn to explain your contribution on your résumé.
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How I Got a $475K Offer: My SWE Job Search Playbook
Austin shares his software engineering job-search experience and introduces a practical course on experience, résumés, applications, interviews and negotiation.
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AI Trading Advice Fact Check, Part 2: The Backtest Receipts
Three viral AI trading rules tested against buy-and-hold, with original NexusTrade backtest receipts, fees, benchmarks and implementation limits.
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You bought the dip. It dipped again. Now what?
Use NexusTrade to research a falling stock, check sources and compare the evidence for selling, holding or adding.
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AI Job Search: My $340K Headway Offer, Including a $20K Sign-On
How I used AI to improve my resume, find matching software engineering roles, and apply, leading to a $340K Headway offer that includes a $20K sign-on bonus.
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AI Agent Context Windows: Compaction Without Losing the Plot
Learn how AI agents manage growing context windows with compaction, searchable conversation logs, and external tool results without forgetting critical work.
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Behind the build
Why I Joined Headway as a Software Engineer
Austin Starks explains how his experience seeking mental health support at Cornell shaped his decision to join Headway as a software engineer. He discusses…