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My record for a single uninterrupted session (albeit with Codex, not Claude) is 80+ hours. It was very productive, too. The trick is having large, extensive te
by int_19h 4mo ago
My record for a single uninterrupted session (albeit with Codex, not Claude) is 80+ hours. It was very productive, too.
The trick is having large, extensive test suites and forcing the agent to run them regularly.
- danmaz74 4mo agoSo I guess that a lot of those 80 hours were spent running the test suite between changes?
- int_19h 4mo agoYep. I should add that the current crop of models is much more tolerant of something like this, compared to where we were a year ago - as in, they are quite willing to wait for a long time for the test or profiling run to finish without giving up on it, if the instructions make it clear that this is normal and expected.
- danmaz74 4mo agoI think that waiting or not is mostly up to the harness, not the model itself.
- nujabe 4mo agoAn agent can’t have an “uninterrupted session” if you have to be “forcing” it do stuff.
- int_19h 4mo ago"Forcing" here basically means giving initial instructions that clearly require passing the tests as a condition of finishing the work. The agent still works uninterrupted.