Hand coding is dead. That is not a prediction — it is a statement of fact from someone who has spent 40 years in software architecture and now builds AI-powered trading bots entirely through conversation.

Here's what they DON'T tell you at university: you don't need a PhD in mathematics from MIT to start algo trading. You don't need $100,000 in startup capital. You don't even need years of experience in finance.

When they set out to build OpenAlgo, an open-source algorithmic trading framework tailored for Indian traders, we faced a barrage of questio