A YouTube monologue by Kosta Ouzas (uploaded Sept 2, 2025) describing challenges adapting an algorithm to meet buyer expectations — specifically making it execute trades more quickly while remaining safe — and the personal transition from doing sales calls to handling development and coding work. The speaker emphasizes learning developer skills and shifting responsibilities.
We have to put ourselves in the positions, in the shoes of a buyer and understand from a buyer's perspective, what do they actually want to see. So what we had to do was take the algorithm and we had to get it to do the same thing very safely, but take trades in a faster way. And that was really hard because it went against kind of the nature of what we built it to do. But this is where we started looking at developers for the first time, because, remember, I was taking sales calls and then getting off the sales calls and developing and writing the code. So we were doing everything. And also a big challenge was learning that.
