This project took 130 hours ± 5 hours from start to finish.
Before starting, I had zero experience or knowledge of:
1. Coding (knew that Python was a language and that's it)
2. Financial microstructure (didn't know what VWAP or option contracts were; let alone greeks, calls/puts, Bayesian optimization, etc.)
3. Tooling (Github, Postgres, Docker, Cursor, CLIs, etc.)
4. Software engineering principles/best practices
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Questions I have:
1. Is the code objectively decent? I passed logic in plain English to AI, step-by-step, and tested before layering more
2. Is learning these domains and going from 0 to 1 in ~130 hours good - or laughably bad?
3. Does this signal any sort of nascent talent in the areas of SWE or quant finance?
(I'm trying to get an early signal of if I should continue to explore a career change. Or if I'm out of my depth.)
Any feedback would be massively appreciated.
Happy to provide more details/context :)