
virat
@virattt
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playing with gen ai + finance
New York, NY
Joined April 2010
I built a stock market API in 42 days. All during @_buildspace s5. What is the API?.Today, it lets you pull financials for 16,000 tickers going back 30+ years. Why did I build the API?.Because the big providers have:.• poor API design.• poor documentation.• expensive sales
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I promised I’d share this. How I wired OAuth into my MCP server. There are 3 players:.• MCP client (@claudeai, etc.).• MCP server (@cloudflare).• Backend (@findatasets). The tricky part: each party needs to trust the other without sharing ANY secrets. I used OAuth 2.1 and a
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It’s time to evolve our AI hedge fund. Instead of 1 team of agents, we'll have multiple “pods” - each with analysts and PM. The pods report to a Chief Investment Officer agent, like a real hedge fund. We’ll use @LangChainAI to run the multi-agent pods in the background. The
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SEC filings now hit @findatasets ~15s faster. We used to poll the SEC every 30s, but the bottleneck was wasted time in each cycle. Fixed it by:.• Reusing HTTP connections.• Parallelizing network I/O to EDGAR.• Eliminating redundant DB writes in hot path. Result: Same
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Big week for our AI hedge fund. We added:.• New GPT-5 models.• New GPT-OSS models via @ollama.• New agent graph via @LangChainAI. I love having both hosted and open-source LLMs in the mix. Next week, we’re adding smarter and more powerful agents.
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I ran some numbers this morning. Yesterday @findatasets served:.• 1.21M requests.• 183ms p95 latency.• 0 total errors. This is the kind of stability I want every customer to feel. I’ll be writing long-form posts soon on the performance tweaks behind the API.
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