Question 1

What does it mean to build a strategy instead of mutating a live one?

Accepted Answer

Building a strategy means the agent produces a written, fixed set of rules that you can read, test, and approve before it ever touches the market. Mutating a live one means an agent keeps changing the running logic on its own while real money is at stake, so you never know exactly what rules are active right now.

Question 2

Why is a reviewable strategy artifact safer than a self-adjusting agent?

Accepted Answer

A reviewable artifact freezes the rules so you can backtest them, paper trade them, and approve them as a known quantity. A self-adjusting agent can drift away from anything you ever tested, which means the live behavior may have no test behind it at all.

Question 3

Does using an AI agent to build a strategy remove the risk?

Accepted Answer

No. It separates the helpful part (turning an idea into testable rules quickly) from the dangerous part (letting software change live behavior unsupervised). You still have to test the strategy honestly and keep guardrails on, because automation runs your rules faithfully whether they are good or flawed.