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1. rdli · 1791060574 · focus · HN ↗

   It’s a really good model. Over the past few days, I give Opus some general directives to basically speed up our CI, and telling it I care both about billing minutes and wall clock time. I told it to create a plan after analyzing everything in our CI, run the plan by a Fable subagent, and then focus on low-risk, high-reward changes.

   9 hours later, I had 12 PRs ready to be merged, and the net result is CI time has dropped from ~10 minutes to ~4 minutes, and billing minutes have dropped around 60%. Less than an hour of my attention.

   1. chewchewchew · 1791060895 · focus · HN ↗

      9 hours?!

      1. rdli · 1791061182 · focus · HN ↗

         Yes. It spawned multiple subagents to run different experiments to benchmark a lot of different things, reviewed CI logs from past runs, etc. In the end, there were changes to what/how we cached, various code quality checks, speeding up test runners, and many other things.

         1. Tade0 · 1791063459 · focus · HN ↗

            I dare not ask about the cost, having burned $60 on a task running for 1h 16min once.

            1. rdli · 1791063886 · focus · HN ↗

               I’m on the $100/month subscription; this session took about $500 in token-equivalent costs.

               (Note that it wasn’t all Opus 5.5; I have a setup that uses Fable 5.1 as an advisor, Sonnet 5.5 for mechanical changes, etc.)

               1. atif089 · 1791064786 · focus · HN ↗

                  Does it resume automatically on higher subscriptions?

                  I'm on a $20 plan and it never auto resumes. I have to go back in and type out resume or click a button.

                  1. Guillaume86 · 1791065612 · focus · HN ↗

                     Instruct it to arm a monitor (every hour or so) to wake him up in case of quota or api issue.

                     1. satvikpendem · 1791066212 · focus · HN ↗

                        Interesting how the French call Claude a "him" and not an "it", as French and many other languages don't have a word for a neuter pronoun.

                        1. Guillaume86 · 1791112571 · focus · HN ↗

                           Eh I know it's a miskate (used both here), but yeah it's a conscious effort for people at my level I guess.

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