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The short version
Barney Hussey-Yeo uses AI agents to automate decisions and bypass traditional management layers. A personal poker bot generates $200,000 a year for Barney Hussey-Yeo by playing low-stakes games.
Most interesting insights
Language models give Barney Hussey-Yeo a clear view into daily product shipments.
“…what we're shipping in a really visceral clear way which I didn't know before LM.”
Barney Hussey-Yeo tracks company output using language models to identify exactly which engineers produce the highest velocity and code quality. This direct visibility bypasses reporting chains and frustrates engineering managers.
“My engineering managers hate me. Like honestly, like I because I I know I know who's shipping. I know like who is the highest velocity, highest code quality. I know which teams because it's a collection of engineers are actually doing great work.”
Barney Hussey-Yeo built a personal system that plays low-stakes online poker. The automated setup earns rakeback and generates approximately $200,000 in yearly profit.
“I've just built an AI agent uh that now plays for me and earns rake back…”
Barney Hussey-Yeo, Cheeky Pint · June 2026 · Watch at 0:55 ↗
“So I make about I shouldn't say this publicly, but I earn about 200k every year now just through my little agent that plays and barely beats the low stakes.”
Barney Hussey-Yeo, Cheeky Pint · June 2026 · Watch at 0:59 ↗
Barney Hussey-Yeo, founder of AI financial assistant Cleo, once funded his entire university education playing online poker, before complex Game Theory Optimal (GTO) solvers became mainstream.
Today, Hussey-Yeo has a personal AI agent that plays low-stakes online poker for him, generating a passive income of approximately $200,000 per year.
Cleo, founded in 2016, radically transformed its AI from basic supervised learning to a heavily LLM-based architecture, fundamentally overhauling its product design.
Barney Hussey-Yeo argues that generic financial advice fails the "99%" of people living month-to-month, stressing the urgent need for highly personalized, proactive solutions.
Barney Hussey-Yeo, CEO of Cleo, now uses AI agents to bypass traditional reporting structures, gaining direct, unfiltered insights into his engineering team's output.
These AI agents synthesize information from tools like Slack, Notion, and GitHub pull requests, creating a dynamic knowledge base of what's being shipped and by whom.
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