Psychologist. Surveys. Done.
Everything she made alone in the month between sessions, reviewed: the surveys, who opened them, and what has to be true before a real client fills one in.
/ Come on the show
You don’t have to become a developer any more.
Mate Wish Key is an unscripted vibe-coding show. A guest brings wishes. We try them live on their computer and see how far we get. Vibe coding: you say what you want in plain words and the computer writes it. Nobody who has been on had written a line of code before.
Prompt it yourself!
- We talk for 15 minutes A video call, to work out what you are after and whether I can help.
- We build it, up to four hours Your computer, your keyboard. You do the typing, I help you with the prompting, and we talk while it works.
- You keep all of it The code is on your machine and it is yours. So is everything you picked up.
9 sessions
22h on the channel, unedited
0 had coded before
One month. Her own CRM.
A place to keep every client, lead and session, so ten emails from a referral centre do not become forty she cannot remember.
Four hours. 3K leads.
A sales channel of his own, built in an afternoon: around three thousand organisations that commission work like his, a scoring survey on his own site, and a domain bought live to run it from.
/ What gets built
Ten things people turn up with
- Put the genie in the box Getting an AI agent running on your own computer, set up for somebody who has never opened a terminal.
- Website building A site you own, on your own domain, that you can change yourself without asking anybody.
- Accounting integration Connecting the tools you already pay for, so the same figures stop being typed at both ends.
- File movement integration Documents filing themselves, between the storage services you already use, without a subscription in the middle.
- Lead generation Finding out who might actually buy from you, and building the list yourself instead of renting it.
- Survey creation A questionnaire that asks better questions than a contact form, and tells you something before you speak to anybody.
- Image generation Pictures for your own business, made on your own machine, in as many versions as you care to look at.
- Client records One place for every client, lead and session, instead of a spreadsheet that became four spreadsheets with nothing in the middle.
- Ask it what is wrong Turning the agent on your own work: a review you can ask for at any hour, from something that has read all of it.
- Migration Moving what you have built onto a machine of its own, so it keeps working when you shut the laptop.
/ How you come on
What a session is
The show is pro bono. You bring the problem and about four hours, and it all happens on your own computer.
- Up to four hours One session, on a weekday night or a Sunday morning.
- Bring your wishes The things you want your computer to do. One is fine if one fills the session.
- Your topic Whatever you actually need. There is no syllabus.
- Your computer, your code It is built on your machine and you keep all of it.
- I help you with the prompting You do the typing. I show you how to ask for what you want so the computer gets it right.
- An AI tool called Claude Code It runs on your own computer, under your own account, and does the typing while you tell it what you want. It is the one I use.
- It goes out live The session streams as it happens and the recording goes on the channel.
- Your wishes get published What you asked for, what was tried and where it stands, each claim with the second on the recording it can be checked at.
- I cut clips from it A few minutes of you may turn up on their own somewhere.
/ The first step
What the 15 minutes actually is
A short video call, just you and me. I want to hear what you are trying to do and work out whether I can actually help with it.
If it is a fit we pick a date. If it is not, I will say so and tell you what I would do instead. Nothing is sold in it and there is nothing to prepare.
My schedule is tight, so I might say no, or we might have to move a date around. You pay me nothing either way, before or after.
/ Questions
The things people ask
The show
What does it cost?
Nothing to me. I speak to everybody first, for 15 minutes, and my schedule is tight, so I might say no, or we might have to move the time around. But you pay me nothing, before or after.
The one thing that does cost is the AI itself. It runs on your computer under your own account, and the plan that includes Claude Code is a paid one. That is between you and Anthropic and their price is theirs to change, so check it rather than take a number off me.
Is this AI training?
Yes, in a quick and unstructured way. It is unscripted: no syllabus, no fixed scope and no boundaries.
You bring the problem and we cook with what we have. It is closer to street magic than to a classroom, and that is deliberate. Nobody can tell you in advance exactly what you will walk out with.
How long is it?
Up to four hours. The agent works slowly, so nothing is instant, and that waiting is where most of the conversation happens.
When do you record?
Monday and Friday nights at 9, and Sunday mornings at 10, Brisbane time. Queensland has no daylight saving, so the window never shifts.
Can I come back on?
Yes. If a month later something has moved on, or you want to take it further, I'm happy to do another one.
Do you do live events?
Yes, I am open to it. Get a few mates together and we can do a bigger session, everyone with a computer in front of them.
Is there a course?
I'm thinking about it. For now I'd rather focus on the show, so there is nothing to enrol in.
Your computer
What do I need on the day?
A strong internet connection, because you are sharing your screen the whole time. A microphone I can hear you on clearly. A camera.
And something you are happy for other people to see.
What kind of computer?
Windows or a Mac, with about 16 GB of memory and 40 GB of free space. On Windows there are a couple of settings to switch on in the BIOS, and I will tell you which ones. Linux works too, and if you are on it you already know that.
Do I have to prepare anything?
It helps a lot if you install the agent before we start. If you have not had time, we spend the first part of the show doing it together.
Is it safe?
Any development carries a risk and I am not going to pretend otherwise. I do what I can to keep it safe on the day, and what that means in practice is written down.
Your stuff
Do I have to share personal information with you?
Not on purpose. Everything happens on your computer, I do not log in to it and I never take control of it: I tell you where to click, you do the typing. But anything you put on screen is visible to me and to everybody watching.
What if the work involves personal data?
Maybe. Only if the data never appears on screen and the work still makes sense without it, because everything that is on screen goes out in public. I will ask you to keep that part off screen, or you stop sharing for a minute while you open it.
You do have to be able to talk about the idea around it, though, or nobody watching can follow.
Who owns what we build?
You do. It is on your computer, not mine, and you never have to send me anything.
While it is running
What if it breaks something?
The setup saves a version of your work before anything interesting happens, which is the whole reason that step is in it. If the change was saved, you can usually ask it to put that change back.
Usually, not always. Ask what the undo is before anything real gets touched, and if the answer is that there is not one, that is the moment to slow down.
It can delete things, the same as you can. It asks first, and you are the one who says yes.
Does it run out? What happens then?
There is a daily allowance and a weekly one. If you use up the day, you wait a couple of hours; if you use up the week, it comes back on a fixed day.
Asking for six versions of something at once burns through it much faster than asking for one. That is usually still worth it.
What about my passwords and account keys?
We keep them off the screen on purpose. They never go in the chat: it opens a file for you, you paste the key in with the screen hidden, and it reads the file rather than being told.
I am not going to promise nothing will ever show. It is a live show, it is not scripted, and mistakes get made. What I will promise is that we are watching for it, and that if something does go out we stop, delete it at the source and make a new one before we carry on.
That has happened, once. It took under a minute to put right, and it is the reason we do it the other way round in the first place.
I closed everything. Have I lost it?
No. It keeps a history in the project folder, so you go back to that folder, start it again, and ask it to pick up where you left off.
That is the reason each project gets its own folder rather than everything going in one place.
What do I do when it says something red?
Copy the whole thing and paste it straight back to it. Not the last line, all of it. That is the single most useful habit on the show and it takes no skill at all.
If it is a page in a browser rather than a terminal, take a screenshot with the address bar in it.
Can it just do it all automatically from now on?
Eventually, and not on day one. Get it emailing you every time it does the thing, watch that for a while, and automate it once you trust what it is reporting.
Some things genuinely cannot be automated, and I will say so rather than spend your afternoon on it.
Me
What's your background?
I've worked in IT for twenty-five years.
Where are you?
Brisbane. Hungarian originally. Wife, three kids.
Where does the name come from?
It's a joke about my own name. Mate Visky, the Hungarian spelling said a different way, turns into Mate Wish Key. I know. I'm at the age where that's the point.
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