Peter Erdos

Twenty years inside online gambling, most of them as a high-stakes player known as 5RayFinkle5. He came on wanting to collect betting odds automatically, read the site's terms partway through, and withdrew the wish himself on air. He left with the tooling instead: his own domain, a password manager holding his own keys, and a site built in five parallel versions.

Peter Erdos

What they work with

Online gambling, from the inside
Two decades of it, most of them playing. It is also why he was the one to spot the problem with his own wish: he knows what a betting site does to a player who starts winning consistently, because he has watched it happen.
Learning to build his own tools
Three or four months of prompting before he came on, working one agent at a time and waiting for each to finish. The session ran five at once, which is the thing he said he took away from it.

What they said afterwards

Superb experience

Before Mate showed me this world. I had zero clue about how helpfull and time efficient can it be to use AI for daily tasks.

After a couple a sessions under Mate's supervise. I can work with data like an expert (or I just feel like I can do like an expert :)).

As I see in 2026 it will be crucial to use AI and Mate is the one who knows how to drive the "rookie like me" go throught the process and help me to complete my wishes.

He came on with one wish and left with four other things.

The wish was a bot to collect Hungarian sports odds every day and watch how they move, which is the sort of thing twenty years in the industry teaches you to want. It worked. Partway through, the agent read the site’s own terms back to him, and he stopped it himself: “it’s really not worth to cross some line here.”

That is the whole reason this session is worth a page. The honest ending is the one where somebody looks at what they are about to do and decides not to.

What he took away instead was the setup: a Cloudflare account and his first domain, an API token created with his screen switched off and rolled once when it had been briefly visible, a password manager whose entire interface is one word, and a personal site generated as five versions at once.

Where the show came from

He was the first. Months before any of this was a show, he asked for some development work and got a counter-offer instead: stop paying somebody to type the prompts, and learn to type them yourself. They had met years earlier, when Mate was playing poker for a living too.

So the format was tested on him before it had a name, and he had been prompting for three or four months by the time he sat down on camera. His own verdict at the end was that he knew nothing, and he meant something precise by it: he runs one agent and waits for it to finish. That session ran five at once.

Episode

Reading terms. Scraping stopped.

1h 52m, unedited

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.

The episode

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