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The Investment Operating System: How I Use AI to Manage My Portfolio Systematically

· 20 min read
Austin Xu
Cloud Platform Engineering Leader @ eBay

This is part 3 of the AI Wealth Management series, exploring how to use Claude Code and LLM Wiki for personal investing.

Most investors I know operate in reaction mode. A friend texts about a hot stock. An earnings beat hits the news. A pundit on X says the sector is turning. Something triggers a buy or sell, and the decision feels analytical — but it's really just noise with a story attached.

What changed my investing wasn't reading more research or finding better sources. It was building a system. Specifically, it was treating my investment process the way a software engineer treats a production system: with defined inputs, explicit logic, observable state, and predictable outputs.

Building AI Agent: From Complex Claude Skills to Production-Grade AI Agents

· 15 min read
Austin Xu
Cloud Platform Engineering Leader @ eBay

This is part 2 of the AI Wealth Management series, exploring how to use Claude Code and LLM Wiki for personal investing.

This post is for developers building AI systems. Specifically: how to develop complex, multi-step Claude Code commands and compose them into workflows — and what it actually takes to turn a working personal tool into a production-grade agent.

The domain is stock investing, but the patterns apply broadly. This post stands on its own — if you want background on what Claude Code is, how LLM Wiki works, and how to build a knowledge base from scratch, Part 1 covers that, but it's not a prerequisite here.

Building Your Personal Finance Knowledge Base with Claude Code

· 9 min read
Austin Xu
Cloud Platform Engineering Leader @ eBay

This is part 1 of the AI Wealth Management series, exploring how to use Claude Code and LLM Wiki for personal investing.

Most people with real expertise — in finance, law, immigration, or anything else — carry it around in their heads, where it helps no one and can't compound. This post is about changing that: building a structured knowledge base that AI can reason over directly, and that can eventually serve others or generate income.

I'll use personal finance as the example domain. North American finance is genuinely complex — 401K, Roth IRA, HSA, Wash Sale Rule, FBAR, cross-border compliance — and worth systematizing. But the method here is domain-agnostic. Same approach works for any field where you have accumulated expertise.