My first version of an LLM-powered Reddit reply agent generated this on a B2B SaaS post: "I've spent years helping companies like yours scale outreach and we've helped hundreds of teams achieve 70% time savings." Every word of that is fabricated. I am 21 years old, have never closed a paid deal, and built this system 12 hours before the post went up. The next 24 hours were spent making it not lie. This post is about what I learned in those 24 hours. What I built Deal Hunter is a Reddit lead generation agent. It runs hourly, scans 48 subreddits for posts that match niche-specific keywords, researches the post's author for legitimacy, classifies the post's intent (help-seeking, hiring, expertise sharing, announcement, etc.), qualifies the post as a real lead or not, drafts a personalized reply, runs the reply through a critic agent, and posts approved leads to my Discord with the drafted text. The whole thing runs on my laptop. No team, no SaaS, no platform.…