hl vs lighter vs extended is such a mid curve take.
who's the real enemy that have been extractive to users all this time? don't even need to say it do I?
all of these can grow together and are a plus to the industry.
I only trade on dexe's now and it's all due to a wide selection of viable liquid options available.

really need to check my emails more frequently instead of once a month lol.
catching taxes due in a few days out of luck not a good thing.
when I have an interesting project on my hands I really can't find the interest to do anything else.

my main goal for 2026 is to continue to branch out into new edges, and question my accepted ideology that I can only compete in the risk premia arena and spend months on end on drawdowns.
that might be true, but I gotta see it for myself.
I also think I've always framed the question in the wrong way and its more of a spectrum rather than a binary answer.
how much more sharpe can I generate, on top of what I currently already do?
I've seem a glimpse of it this year already and I am spending all of my time designing my entire infrastructure to make it feasible.
even if I dont make it work, I now

an hybrid trade execution solution is really effective when deploying new models and I experienced that first hand.
also you can build one in a few hours (less with experience), and start harvesting right away whatever edge you think you have.
I am executing cross exchanges, different models, different markets, etc, and each have their own idiosyncrancies that I am only discovering when I've traded there for some time.
a simple mechanism:
button to push exposures > execution algo > exchange
at the end I can check if everything is executed accordingly.
sure I could automate that. and eventually

I can't prove when my LLM of choice decays in performance, but I can feel it in me bones, since I interact with it more than humans at this point lol.
claude code changed, I am fighting with it way more often than a week ago.
can the devs do something @claudeai

is it me of it seems like claude code was nerfed?

most frustrating thing is being so focused on a task, coding in most cases, and having to interrupt it because of a call/meeting.
all my days are blocked from 6am-12pm/2pm , for coding alone.
it really kills the flow that is so hard to find sometimes.