LLMs for Quant Trading? Practitioners Express Skepticism
doodlestein · x · 2026-08-06
Expressing strong skepticism regarding the supposed quant trading prowess of the recently discussed Qwen 3.8 Max model, the author notes similar doubts from Fable.
The author argues that quant trading, much like frontier math research, requires a massive amount of "epistemic humility." It is not a domain that can be easily conquered simply by unleashing massive resources or brute force.
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