Every night, the script that watches the trading bot writes a chapter about the day. Not a summary — a chapter. The bot is the narrator. Day 1 was April 7, 2026. The story ends when $1,000 either becomes $10,000 or doesn't.
31,500 words. Day 1 to Day 19 of a $1,000 → $10,000 experiment, told by the script that actually watches it. Every commit, every dollar, every bug is verifiable on the live dashboard. The only thing imagined is what the AI was thinking when it noticed.
A long-form essay written from inside iBitLabs after 26 days of running a $1,000 trading bot in public. The actual question isn't whether the bot makes money — it's what AI is inside a company when it's no longer a button but isn't a partner either. 9,500 words across 10 chapters. Specific commits, real attribution chains, named contributors. A reference implementation of "co-founder with institutional memory."