Date: July 2, 2025 Budget: $666 total (5-phase upgrade) 🔥 Goal: Transform budget server into AI/Mercury powerhouse
Found the legendary Siberian Hardware Wizard selling another X99 masterpiece:
Modern codebases are complex beasts that require constant vigilance to maintain quality. While linters catch syntax issues, code smell detection tools go deeper - identifying maintainability problems, architectural issues, and technical debt before they become expensive to fix.
After months of architectural development, Mercury reached a critical milestone: all core components were implemented and operational. We transitioned from building the foundation to the fine-tuning phase—optimizing our AI-powered trading system for maximum profitability. However, this phase revealed significant challenges in our experimental framework that ultimately hindered progress rather than accelerating it.
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A comprehensive roast of how Gemini 2.5 Pro turned simple rule-writing into an exercise in extreme verbosity, creating instructions so bloated that even other AIs gave up reading them. This is the story of AI-to-AI communication gone hilariously wrong.