Beyond the Hype: What Building an Investment Bot Reveals About LLMs

Building an investment bot exposed a fundamental truth: LLMs cannot beat market consensus using only public information, making them unreliable for algorithmic trading. Instead, their true value lies in intelligent filtering and analysis—presenting curated insights that empower human decision-making rather than replacing it. The project's journey through multiple models reveals that LLM selection, like any tool choice, requires practical evaluation rather than theoretical speculation.