AI-First Principles for Crypto Scalping, Each With the Test That Breaks It
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"AI-first" is usually an adjective. It sits in a README, it survives every code review, and nobody can say what would have to be true for it to be false. I spent a while auditing my own crypto scalper against a test that answers that question in two lines — and the honest result was that 0 of 108 modules were at the intersection of AI and crypto. Not one.
That is not a confession of failure. It is what happens the first time you replace an adjective with an experiment. Below are the eleven principles that survived, each stated the only way a principle is worth stating: with the condition that breaks it.