Can I create my own indicators with AI/LLM or should I still hire a coder?

You need to learn to define your goal. I have been using CoPilot and Claude. They can give you an initial working version quicker than you can do a search and find the topic instructions. I have access to Gemini but have not tried it yet.

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I asked for an opinion when I didn’t yet have experience using AI agents. :slight_smile:

I’ve amassed around 700 hours of actual coding with AI agents by now, so I no longer need opinions. That’s around 100 hours with Ninjatrader and around 600 hours on a fairly large project I’m doing (custom trading application) and where I finally see the finish line.

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Saw your comments on the AI coding thread. You’re spot on about software being pure overhead for a trader, the catch with Claude or CoPilot for NT8 is that they mix up old NT7 syntax and completely fail when you need the code to handle multi-timeframe sync or high-volatility tick spikes. It works for a basic moving average, but then it stutters and locks up the chart right when you need to execute

If you have a specific setup or risk management tool you want built without wasting weeks debugging code that a chatbot generated, let me know, I build clean, unmanaged C# wrappers that just run in the background