The LLM Ran the Backtest. That’s Exactly Why You Should Panic.
TL;DR: For a year the standard critique of LLM-designed strategies was “the model can’t actually do the math — the backtest is hallucinated.” That critique is now dead. ChatGPT, Claude…
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