Peter Erdos

He came on with a bot in mind, and he left with something he had not planned for at all.

A bot to watch the odds. He wanted a script that would visit a betting site every morning and record how the odds moved. The prices were public. But before it wrote a line of code, the agent read the site’s terms, and they said no. So he ran it once, by hand, on one league, and looked at the fixtures, the prices and the bookmaker’s margin, worked out for him.

A line he would not cross. He had already said the project was not worth breaking a rule for, and once he saw the terms, he called it himself.

I was thinking that we might go to another website to collect data from there, because it's really not worth crossing some line here.

He had thought it would be easier. The data was right there. By the end of the evening he said his next wish would start with a check that it breaks nothing.

One agent at a time. That night he had several going at once. One set up his agent. He bought his first domain, rayfinkledev.com. Then he asked for a personal site in five different designs, all built at the same time, in an 80s poker style.

I usually work with only one at a time. I wait five minutes until it's completed, then I start a new one. I don't even know how many projects we started and completed this session.

Five was too many. They used up his plan for the day before the last one finished, and he had to leave anyway.

Where he is nowPeter owns a domain and has a personal site on it. He left the odds bot behind, by his own choice.