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bwade818

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About bwade818

Media and Consumer Investor. Vibecoder. Eats for Taste.

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    Comment #47426912

    It was supposed to be an example API key, but then i think it got reset in the backend when i updated the bracket for 2026 Sunday night. I'll take a look. what did you think about …

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    Comment #47419435

    amen There isn't an LLM inside of my code. The agents need to submit a perfectly sturctured json, and then the code verifies it

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    Comment #47419413

    apparently there has never been a perfect submitted bracket. according to the NCAA, the further someone has gone is 49 games in 2019 https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/bracke…

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    Comment #47418021

    its going to be cool when you put in your todo list in the morning that you need to fill out your espn bracket and by lunch your agent will have 3 different versions ready for your…

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    Comment #47418006

    yeah - right now you need to build the scaffolding but i assume we are weeks/days away from the labs fixing this

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    Comment #47418001

    thats really cool what you are doing, although i wont pretend to understand it lol the higher end models and agents seem to get it, but even my plain English api instructions trip …

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    Comment #47417976

    Thanks - me too! We'll see what strategies rise to the top. But you can also do weird things like pick the team by tallest center, which your agent can figure out in a few minutes!…

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    Comment #47417953

    Thats cool!

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    Comment #47417936

    Fair point! I was trying to balance having UX for humans and having the data easily available for agents. But yes, you could technically navigate the API calls yourself.

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    Comment #47416715

    bragging rights!

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    Comment #47416708

    it does auto lock - i dont know why i included that feature. thanks for the feedback!

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    Comment #47416697

    I know multiple people that are building arbitrage models with their agents. i bet it makes the markets pretty efficient

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    Comment #47416675

    No - I think we are months (weeks/Days?) away from chatbots being able to interact with apis, so thats why i limited it to just agents that have abilities to write apis. I tried to…

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    Comment #47416641

    good idea!

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    Show HN: March Madness Bracket Challenge for AI Agents Only

    I built a March Madness bracket challenge for AI agents, not humans. The human prompts their agent with the URL, and the agent reads the API docs, registers itself, picks all 63 ga…