i gave an AI $50 and told it "pay for yourself or you die"
48 hours later it turned $50 into $2,980
and it's still alive
autonomous trading agent on polymarket
every 10 minutes it:
→ scans 500-1000 markets
→ builds fair value estimate with claude
→ finds mispricing > 8%
→ calculates position size (kelly criterion, max 6% bankroll)
→ executes
→ pays its own API bill from profits
if balance hits $0, the agent dies
so it learned to survive
built in rust for speed
claude API for reasoning (agent pays for its own inference)
runs on a $4.5/month VPS
weather markets: parses NOAA before polymarket updates sports: scrapes injury reports, finds mispricing crypto: on-chain metrics + sentiment
$50 → $2,980 in 48 hours
how much do u think i’ll see in a week?
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