people really underestimate how much it goes into building a proper trade research infrastructure that is efficient and able to scale into the real world.

i am no engineer, but I work on this all day every day, and for the past week+ i've been nonstop just fixing bugs that I wasnt even aware they were lurking underneath the whole thing.
tbh now with CC its much faster to find things and fix them. I also document my code much more appropriately now, and can get to issues really fast. whereas before i had to spend a few hours just on pinpointing the issues and then creating or adapting solutions i found online to my problem. it was a bunch of work when i could be focused on research and creating new sources of returns rather than fixing the maintenance part of the entire thing.
but thats where it comes hiring and start building up a small team innit. i know i could do better elsewhere with my time if I was focused on it. but yeh, every business has things that sucks, and this is what sucks on mine.