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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. tripleee · 1791065126 · focus · HN ↗

                  God I hope the prices drop quick. Once they stop subsidizing it these kinds of workflows will be unaffordable for anyone who isn't already wealthy

                  1. miroljub · 1791069324 · focus · HN ↗

                     Subsidies are a lie planted by Misanthropic and ClosedAI to milk their users and let them think it's the other way round.

                     Inference is highly profitable business, even for third parties with much less resources and expertise.

                     1. azan_ · 1791071815 · focus · HN ↗

                        Inference is highly profitable, but you need to recoup losses from training.

                        1. miroljub · 1791097791 · focus · HN ↗

                           Only if your training costs are overblown because you are bruteforcing it. Otherwise it's an equivalent of printing money.

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