Who else is guilty of this..

[Fugazi]

Tweaking an automation setting and coming back to realise you did it wrong and blew your balance.

£50 quid wasted today offering people 10-1 on 2-1 greyhound favourites while I ignorantly sat eating my dinner


Yes yes.. always paper trade the automation first I know. Not even the first time I've done this

[Derek27]

Tweaking an automation setting and coming back to realise you did it wrong and blew your balance.

£50 quid wasted today offering people 10-1 on 2-1 greyhound favourites while I ignorantly sat eating my dinner


Yes yes.. always paper trade the automation first I know. Not even the first time I've done this

If you make any tweak involving the calculation of stakes or price, test it in practice mode first.

[Euler]

My biggest sin is having some automation that is working nicely, tweaking it and breaking it!

[sniffer66]

Once blew £500 in about a minute. Was another product but I was creating a strategy, and accidentally turned it from paused to live before it was finished

Blood drain from the face moment lol

But, it was a learning experience - never done it since

[sniffer66]

My biggest sin is having some automation that is working nicely, tweaking it and breaking it!

Version control would actually be a very nice feature. I always forget to "save as"

[Euler]

I tend to use save as, as a version control. But often guilty of tweaking without saving.

[sniffer66]

I tend to use save as, as a version control. But often guilty of tweaking without saving.

Maybe a prompt then. "You've edited this baf, would you like to save as a new version ? Y/N "

[Derek27]

My biggest sin is having some automation that is working nicely, tweaking it and breaking it!

Version control would actually be a very nice feature. I always forget to "save as"

There's a wide variety of backup software available. I use IDrive. The cloud backup automatically backs up the last 30 versions of your files.

[Derek27]

I tend to use save as, as a version control. But often guilty of tweaking without saving.

I also use that, add a _2 or _3 to the file name if it's an experimental modification I may want to reverse.

[sniffer66]

My biggest sin is having some automation that is working nicely, tweaking it and breaking it!

Version control would actually be a very nice feature. I always forget to "save as"

There's a wide variety of backup software available. I use IDrive. The cloud backup automatically backs up the last 30 versions of your files.

I use Google Drive, but that will just overwrite files of the same name. Will look into that

[sniffer66]

I tend to use save as, as a version control. But often guilty of tweaking without saving.

I also use that, add a _2 or _3 to the file name if it's an experimental modification I may want to reverse.

I'll go _V1.0 to _V1.1 but often forget and hit save and *poof*

[Derek27]

Version control would actually be a very nice feature. I always forget to "save as"

There's a wide variety of backup software available. I use IDrive. The cloud backup automatically backs up the last 30 versions of your files.

I use Google Drive, but that will just overwrite files of the same name. Will look into that

I'm half-minded to write my own backup software that encrypts and backs up files to OneDrive or Google. the problem with having 30 versions is that if you're modifying and re-running a script every two minutes, it only keeps an hour's worth!

Would be handy to have a settings file in each folder that specifies minimum age as well as number of versions. I'm learning Microsoft C++ but it could even be done with AutoIt. It comes with an encryption library.

[sniffer66]

There's a wide variety of backup software available. I use IDrive. The cloud backup automatically backs up the last 30 versions of your files.

I use Google Drive, but that will just overwrite files of the same name. Will look into that

I'm half-minded to write my own backup software that encrypts and backs up files to OneDrive or Google. the problem with having 30 versions is that if you're modifying and re-running a script every two minutes, it only keeps an hour's worth!

Would be handy to have a settings file in each folder that specifies minimum age as well as number of versions. I'm learning Microsoft C++ but it could even be done with AutoIt. It comes with an encryption library.

One good thing about getting ChatGPT to write your code for you is that it saves every session. Only takes a minute or so to find the previous version. That's my main use of AI at the moment, knocking out code in seconds it would take me a good few hours to put together. I just get it to output the code and run it locally