Reading terms. Scraping stopped.
A first domain and a site on it, a password manager the agent can read, and an odds scraper he decided against once it had read the terms.
What came out of it. He withdrew his own wish mid-show, on his own reasoning, once the agent surfaced the site's terms. What he left with instead is the tooling: a password manager holding his own keys, a Cloudflare account and a domain bought on the show, an agent helper installed in two prompts, and a personal site generated in five parallel variants, which ran out his plan for the day.
The session
The full session · 1h 52m · Watch on YouTube
No prompt log for this session.
The hero of this one
Peter Erdos
Former high-stakes poker professional, learning to build his own tools
He is where the show came from. Months before there was a show, he was the first person Mate tried this on: stop doing it for him, teach him to prompt it himself, and see what happens.
Worth stealing
Make it read the terms before it writes the scraper
Before a line of scraping code existed, the agent opened the site's own terms and said what they prohibited. That is a step you can ask for on any site, and it costs one prompt. Here it is what ended the wish: he read them too and decided the line was not worth crossing.
Name the tool you want, and let it do the installing
Not "set me up a password manager" but "I need a password manager, and I think we can use sops, can you install it for me". Naming the thing puts you back in charge of what lands on your machine, and the install is the part you were never going to enjoy anyway.
Ask for five at once when you do not know what you want
Five versions of the site generated in parallel rather than one refined five times. Useful exactly when you cannot describe what you are after but will know it when you see it, which is most of the time with anything visual.
A key that has been on screen is spent, so roll it
A token appeared on the stream. The fix was not to hide the window, it was to regenerate the token on the spot and paste the new one. Hiding assumes nobody saw it; rolling does not have to assume anything.
Agents running at once share one quota, not one each
Five going in parallel ran the day's plan limit out before the last of them finished. Running more at once is a real technique and it is not free: the budget is per plan, so the fifth job is competing with the first four rather than adding to them.
What happened, when
Every line opens the session at that moment.
- 2:37 The wish: collect the odds every day, and see how far the data goes
- 3:26 A disclaimer before anything is built
- 8:13 Putting the genie in the box: the helper, installed in two prompts
- 21:30 His first Cloudflare account, and a domain bought on the show
- 30:12 The agent reads the terms before it scrapes
- 36:06 A password manager the agent can read
- 43:01 The guest withdraws his own wish
- 58:46 The only edge is the data nobody else can see
- 1:07:20 Five website variants at once
- 1:19:36 Three months in, and honest about being lost
- 1:33:03 A token on screen, and rolling it
- 1:48:20 Five agents, one plan limit
Show notes
The first guest who arrived already prompting. Two decades in online gambling, a few months into working with an agent, and a wish that was really a question:
“I came up with the idea that we are going to collect data for sport betting and let’s just see how far can we go with that data.”
Peter Erdos, three minutes in
It went as far as the fixtures, the prices and the bookmaker’s margin, in under an hour. Then he stopped it himself. The agent had read the site’s terms before writing a scraper and said so; he read them too and decided the line was not worth crossing. I think that is the best thing anybody has done on this show.
What he left with is what every session starts with: his own accounts, his own keys in a password manager the agent can read, a domain he owns, and a site on it.
Last updated 8 September 2026. Published as-is: read what a prompt does before you run it. The disclaimer has the rest.
