#python

It started as a casual observation from friends: the best rental deals disappear fast. You message a landlord minutes after the listing goes up—or you don’t get a reply at all. That tiny time window was frustrating, but it also sounded like a great problem for automation.

For years, I’ve loved playing Heroes of Might and Magic III. It’s one of those games where the strategy, randomness, and battle animations still hold up decades later. But I recently found myself wondering: what would it look like if a machine tried to make the decisions instead?

I learned a lot about automation with Python and how the game works, but I didn't want to end it yet. I lost access to all my previous characters, so I had to start from the beginning. But it wasn't a complete beginning.

After finishing my fishing bot, I wanted to automate something more complicated.

When I was a kid, I used to play a MMORPG called Metin2. Like many RPGs, progression relied heavily on grinding repetitive tasks. I’d heard of hacks for the game, but my limited knowledge back then made me cautious — I didn’t want to risk viruses or getting my account stolen.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been deep in the weeds of fine-tuning my own custom LLM. One idea that kept coming up: why not train it directly on real-world tech‐forum discussions? Instead of manually copying and pasting entire threads, I decided to build a scraper that could pull down each conversation automatically—archiving raw HTML or text so I could feed it into my fine‐tuning pipeline.