For nearly two decades, legendary hedge-fund manager Steve Cohen produced some of the best returns in the industry, bringing him both incredible wealth and unwanted attention from the Securities and Exchange Commission. While the government never managed to get anything to stick to Cohen himself, his firm, SAC Capital, eventually pleaded guilty to insider trading and paid $1.8 billion in penalties. Cohen, after reaching a deal with the S.E.C., was barred from managing outside money until January 1, 2018.

Now, with that date fast approaching, Cohen is probably so excited he can barely sleep at night. He does, however, have a small problem that needs solving: what to do with his underperforming traders, who Cohen has been known to ask, “Do you even know how to do this f---ing job?”. Last year his firm, now called Point72 Asset Management, recorded its second-worst year ever. And prior to that, Cohen was already lamenting 96 to 98 percent of the people who apply for jobs at Point72 don’t even deserve to have their parking validated. Luckily, he’s come up with an idea: replace his human traders with robot ones. Per Bloomberg:

Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management, which oversees his $11 billion fortune, is parsing troves of data from its portfolio managers and testing models that mimic their trades, according to people familiar with the matter.

Using analyst recommendations as an input, the effort involves examining the DNA of trades: the size of positions; the level of risk and leverage; and whether an investment was hedged, said one of the people. It also entails looking at the timing of trades, assessing pricing and liquidity in the market, and the duration over which managers build positions.

The model will identify patterns and relationships based on those analytics and seek to replicate bets, the people said. Point72 is also experimenting with automating the work of its execution traders, who place buy and sell orders with brokers on behalf of money managers.

Robots, unlike highly paid money managers, don’t demand raises and never need bonuses. Even better, you never have to worry about them cooperating with the feds.