What I learned tuning a Reddit DM agent through 8 versions in 24 hours

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 gene