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automation · 1 min read

Watch-only by design

para-radar collects Turkish lira yield opportunities: money market funds, deposit campaigns, daily interest accounts. It compares everything net of tax and pings me when idle cash could be doing better.

The most important feature is missing by design. It cannot move money. Not "does not yet", cannot. There is no execution path, no credentials with write scope, nothing to fat-finger at 2am. That is a deliberate line. The value is in the watching: normalize messy rates from a dozen sources, apply the right tax treatment, compare like with like.

The moment a personal tool can also act, every bug becomes a financial incident and every refactor needs a risk review. Read-only keeps the blast radius at zero and the development speed at maximum.