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dora · Level 15
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This really happened somewhere.

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blindxfish blindxfish

Is this true? Can't be true.

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blindxfish blindxfish

Full text:
Someone gave $75 to Grok Bot and told it:

"Earn your keep or I'll shut you down."

48 hours later, the account was at $6,140.

And it's still running.

It's an autonomous trading agent within the platform.

This person didn't touch a single line of code. The bot lives in its own cloud environment, with its own browser and terminal, working even while they sleep.

Every 20 minutes it does this:

Searches for all weather-related markets whose resolution date is within the next 10 days.

Compares the market's current price with the most recent forecast update.

Only opens a position when the forecast and the market differ enough to create an opportunity.

Increases the position size depending on how big that difference is.

Executes the trade on its own, without asking for approval.

And pays for its own hosting directly from the profits.

If it ever hits $0, the subscription cancels and it's done for good.

By the ninth hour, it had dropped to $14.

Then it closed all the multi-day markets it had open and switched its strategy to trade only markets that resolve the same day.

In other words, it changed its own strategy to stay alive.

Setting it up took just one night: start the bot, run a trade in front of it, put it on a timer, and connect a wallet to it.

No VPS. No API keys. No developer on call.

The same person had paid a freelancer $4,000 last year to build something similar.

It never got past being a demo.

Grok Bot did in one night what two months of freelancers couldn't.

$75 โ†’ $6,140 in 48 hours.

How much will it have by Saturday?

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retoor retoor

Grok has a full autonomous build system online, can do anything. I made a meme about how they were humiliating manus.

But "someone" does not sound very convincing. Why is he not doing it himself. Why is not elon doing it?

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retoor retoor

perplexuty computer. I quitted perplexuty before that became a thing. From my most trusted app / most beloved to an unsubscription and never looking back.