Comment by CrazyStat
5 days ago
Since we’re sharing anecdata: I also have the $20 month plan for codex, and I hit the five hour limit after about an hour of work every single time I open it. I use it for personal side projects primarily in the evening after kids are in bed, so my strategy is to launch it about 4pm and send a simple prompt to prime the 5 hour window to end at 9pm, start working about 8pm, and then I can use up the existing 5 hour window and the next one by about 10pm.
What kind of side projects do you need to run these models for that many hours? I haven't experimented with Opus to that extent and mostly supervise it and/or am prompting it every 5-10min to fix something up.
I've done a variety of things with it:
- sysadmin tasks for my home server which runs home assistant, plex, and minecraft servers. Being able to tell it "Set up a minecraft fabric server with this list of mods" is pretty nice, and it's fairly competent at putting together home assistant dashboards and automations (make sure you have backups of anything it's allowed to touch, though--it may delete stuff without warning).
- Several small web apps primarily for my own use.
- Currently working on an opinionated desktop writing app for my own use.