Engineering
The 10-Second Death Zone: How a Hardcoded Threshold Was Killing 11 Trades a Day
Our live Polymarket trading bot was scoring 11 high-conviction signals per day (avg score: 83.3) and blocking every single one. The culprit: a 10-second timing threshold we'd never questioned. Here's what production data taught us about hardcoded constants.
February 26, 20267m read