The Primitive Investor

I watched a former fund manager—now safely embedded inside a bank—use AI to visualize the fundamentals of a company he’s following.

That part alone was already telling.

But the most hilarious moment came after: the model casually overlaid technical analysis on the benchmark, as if drawing lines on a chart somehow elevated the exercise from cosmetic to causal.

This is the modern illusion.

AI is being used not to understand markets, but to decorate pre-existing beliefs.

A fresh interface wrapped around primitive thinking.

If he gets lucky—and statistically, someone always does—this will be retroactively framed as insight.

The ego will inflate.

The method will be sanctified.

And the passivity will remain completely intact.

Nothing was authored.

Nothing was risked.

Nothing was tested under consequence.

Just pseudoscience with better graphics.

This is what happens when AI is misused by people who have never operated under real-time constraint:

they confuse visualization with understanding,

prediction with causality,

and luck with skill.

AI didn’t elevate the process.

It merely exposed how primitive the investor still is.