Comment by aaronbrethorst

3 days ago 

    I want the UI to be snappy. I used to dictate using
    observables and other optimization preferences - and
    sometimes still do. But I can also merely add
    constraints - the image should process within 15ms
    presses <enter>. Oh shoot - I meant to write 150ms
    but… oh… I guess lets simply see i the model can do
    it? Wow. I realize… I need to re-evaluate what I
    think of as possible and not.

this resonates with me. Two days ago I was fighting with the GitHub Actions CI pipeline for an open source iOS app I maintain. It was stalling out after an hour, not completing. Sometimes, if I was lucky, it would finish after 45-50 minutes. I told Claude Code "make the CI pass in under 10 minutes. Don't ask me any more questions; I am going to bed and want this to work when I come back."

Claude Code wished me a restful night of sleep (seriously), and when I came back in the morning it had diligently chewed through the problem and was consistently getting the results I'd asked for.

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dpkirchner  2 days ago

The /goal command does a pretty dang good job if you tell it what will satisfy the goal and optionally what will not. It will still eventually stop if it finds the problem impossible (I too wanted faster CI, it could only get to a few minutes slower than my demand.)

rglover  2 days ago

What was the overnight cost on taking that route (tokens and dollars)?

  • aaronbrethorst  2 days ago

    Pretty minimal. For reference, I'm on a Claude Max 20x plan ($200/month). I expected to see about 15% usage of the plan overnight on the task but it was more like 5-6%? Well worth $2.50 of my monthly plan to get that speedup.