I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI

I have to imagine bots have made online poker unwinnable by now, right?

Cool write up. I played online professionally for the year leading up to the big online shutdown. AMA, always love talking poker strategy.

I like this approach:

“ What it all means for the future

It's not really my thing to give too much thought about macro-trends that are out of my control or worry about what negative consequences they might have on my life.

The short answer, I really don't know what this means for the future of the career of programming, the business of software, or anything else. Instead of worrying about that I'm going to try to focus on the here and now, the upside potential, and the unique set of advantages that I have available to me to build something valuable, have fun, and maybe profit.

I'm going to do what I enjoy doing, try to learn some new skills and create things.”

Have you cross-referenced with the other hand trackers whether the numbers add up? Alternately, could someone explain why wouldn't a LLM hallucinate with numbers in an application like this?

If you're looking for a tool that may be a bit better than Cursor for UX, you could potentially look into Lovable. If you know what you want and the proper design terminology, you can potentially make some slick looking UIs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20414905

I did something similar with Risk, in case of interest

https://andreasthinks.me/posts/ai-at-play/

> Then I started building my own Python script automations to export my hand history from PokerStars, import it into PokerTracker 4, check my balance, stuff like that.

If it works like it did with ASR (Advanced Speech Recognition) back in the day, then doesn't the app now have all of your decision bias? Restated, isn't the app a reflection of how you play poker, not how an AI would play if it were truly artificially intelligent?

Yup, sw engineering is a slow march to being commoditized. Some things will remain hard (only because it's cutting edge and pushing the limits of something) but known patterns and services will be just-yell-at-ai to stand up. A lot of businesses can run on the latter, i guess - but at that point the challenge is having a viable business, not the software development of X.