· Steven Mays · AI & Development
Slow Agents and Spare Tokens: Building an Investing Agent That Optimizes for Being Right
My stock-research agent evaluates one company at a time, fans out a dozen subagents to verify every claim, and runs only when I have spare tokens to burn. Slow by every metric that matters for an agent — which is exactly why I trust it. How it is built, and the first stock it picked.