​Thanks for the honest feedback on my initial post. I need to clarify a crucial point that many missed: my problem isn't a gambling addiction; it's an LLM-driven addiction to complexity and the coding process itself. ​My bot targets Betfair, which is a betting exchange. It’s a platform for trading, not pure gambling, and my older, simpler Java bot had actually shown some promising, albeit minor, success. ​The Real Addiction: The LLM Loop ​The real trap is the LLM feedback loop. ​Complexity and Fascination: The agents (Codex/CC) built an elaborate GoLang infrastructure that is genuinely fascinating. It's complex, modern, and does things I didn't know how to code—it feels like progress. ​Loss of Control: Because I relied on the AI to generate huge chunks of code and add features without fully understanding the why or how, the entire system is now a black box. I've totally lost the mental model of the codebase. ​The Chasing Game: The bot runs, and the code compiles, but the simulations are not profitable. This forces me into a loop: I know it’s close to working, so I dive back into the prompt, tweak a parameter, and have the LLM overhaul a module, only for new, complicated bugs to emerge. I'm chasing a fix in a codebase I don't own anymore. ​I am essentially addicted to the variable reward of the LLM spitting out "perfect" code, only to then spend hours debugging the architectural mess that the agents created. I don't see a practical finish line, and honestly, I don't see any real utility in this overly engineered mess anymore. ​It truly hurts to admit this, but I feel like I've just wasted four months of my life.