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I let two AI agents trade $44,000 of my own money
Two AI trading agents manage $44,000 of Austin Starks' own money. The $25,000 Public Portfolio Challenge, the August strategy swap, and the paper control that measures it.
NEXUSTRADE / VIDEOS
AI trading videos
Shorts I filmed while building NexusTrade.
Every video has a transcript.
52 shorts · every one transcribed
About me videos
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They Called Me a DEI Hire. Here Is the Receipt for Every Claim.
Called a DEI hire, Austin Starks lists the record: Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, a $40M integration at Oscar Health, an Ivy League powerlifting title, and 1.6M lines of code.
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Is NexusTrade legit? Does NexusTrade work?
Is NexusTrade legit? Austin Starks shows the public record: Coinbase, Figma, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, 1.6M lines of code, and $25,000 of his own money in a live book.
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Why Smaller Language Models Hallucinate More. I Turned Down $475,000.
Why smaller language models hallucinate more. Senior AI engineer. I turned down $475,000. More weights and more data make a more accurate function.
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Open Heart Surgery Six Days Before Christmas. I Learned to Code Two Weeks Later.
Open heart surgery at 2019 Christmas for an atrial septal defect and PAPVR, then teaching myself React two weeks later on max-dose painkillers.
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How I Made $400K a Year as a Senior AI Engineer
Senior AI engineer Austin Starks on making $400k a year in big tech, the W-2 that proves it, and how he helps students land the same jobs.
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Is a 3.6 GPA Bad? The Lowest Calculus Score at Cornell, and My Transcript.
I had the lowest score in my Cornell Calculus II class, finished it above the class median, and graduated with a 3.631. The full transcript is on screen.
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What I Think of Palantir as a Software Engineer. I Turned Down $300,000.
What I think of Palantir as a software engineer. I turned down over $300,000. The stock can be a trade. The job is not.
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They Knew About My Trading App From Day One. Then Coinbase Fired Me.
Coinbase knew about NexusTrade from day one. I disclosed it on LinkedIn, GitHub, and to People Ops. They fired me after Coinbase Advisor shipped.
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I Don't Write Any of My Code. The Project Is 1,873,324 Lines.
Senior AI engineer. I don't write any of my code. The project is 1,873,324 lines. I only read orders, Stripe, and real money paths.
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I Spent 1,400 Days Building This. 35,000 People Have Tried It.
I spent 1,400 days building an algo trading platform. 1,873,324 lines, 35,000 people, and a live public book. Google Public Portfolio Challenge.
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How to Succeed in Life: The 11 Steps I Actually Took, With Receipts
How to succeed in life, shown with receipts: open heart surgery, Cornell, CMU, Princeton, Coinbase, Figma, and turning down a $475,000 offer.
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What Can You Do With a Biology Degree? Mine Led to CMU and Big Tech.
What can you do with a biology degree? Austin Starks used his to earn a CMU master's, work as a software engineer, and run a public AI trading experiment.
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How to Study in College: The 3 Changes That Fixed My Cornell Grades
He got the lowest score in his Cornell calculus class, then built a study method from nothing. The three changes, and the transcript.
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They Said Affirmative Action Got Me Into Cornell. Here Is What I Did There.
They said Cornell was affirmative action. The record: Ivy title, Princeton, a CMU full ride, Figma, and 1.6M lines of code.