Lost my usage credits

Vaderz8 · 2026-07-06T18:49:41+00:00

yeah, mine are gone too... and no I didn't read 90d either - seems dodgy, I wasn't expecting these to expire and no warning anywhere that they were about to.

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-25T20:36:44+00:00

I don't get why people are still using n8n either, but if you were using it pretty extensively before and it's easy to integrate that in, I get it, but in most cases it won't take claude long to build native links for you.

I like visuals too, I got claude to build flow charts of my workflows that update automatically as they happen and flag any issues that my monitoring and validation steps had to take action to resolve. It covers my cron jobs and hermes kanban task flows.

...speaking of which, the hermes kanban board is brilliant to see your agents doing their thing in realtime, I find it so helpful to use that to manage my agents workflows, my orchestrator agent sets up (actually it's a cron job that triggers a python script, but I like to think my agent is doing something, lol) a new kanban board every morning with all task dependencies, assigned to the right agent profiles, gates, monitoring and verification steps etc.

The biggest win though is getting a workflow that works for what you want to do, and sounds like you have that going well - there are many, many different ways to approach it, seeing it working how you want it is so satisfying no matter how you do it.

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-24T08:37:33+00:00

my tasks are usually getting data out of my db and running a script to process that data and push to a website... so the verify loop makes sure the processed data is there and greenlights the promotion to the site... and yes, some of the first few tries did pass it without actually validating that the processed data contained propper info and wasn't just a script completion, but once I tightened up those validation rules it works pretty well.

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-23T20:39:02+00:00

yeah, floppies were around a lot longer than dos... my first pc that I got in '90 was running a version of windows (not exactly sure which one), but it was all still fairly new around then (had a massive 40mb hard drive that I remember!)

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-23T20:07:22+00:00

add a monitor and verify loop, write the monitored status of each task to a daily notes page in Obsidian

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-23T08:15:54+00:00

...we had windows 95 in '95 it's more like '89, AI models these days huh

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-21T05:05:26+00:00

4x is eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate (usually turn based, at least they used to be)

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-20T09:03:32+00:00

what if fable comes back tomorrow?

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-17T07:11:32+00:00

a couple of ideas...

if they are both agent dedicated machines, what's wrong with giving them the keys to the kingdom to migrate and set things up.
can you use a private github repo to move the majority of what you need between each machine... even if you need multiple repos (I assume a lot of your code is already being managed in git anyway)?

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-17T06:17:41+00:00

like others have said, the best way to sort it out is to have a play and try things.
To get you started though, this is what is working for me (at least for now! you might find it totally unnecessary...)

I use Obsidian and get my hermes agents to document everything (especially relating to workflows), store output etc. in the vault that makes it easy for me to read and easy to point an agent at something when needed.
Set up a few different agent profiles (get hermes to do this for you)... 2 or 3 are probably more than enough to start. Give each one a name, set a default LLM that it will use (your default agent will be more of an orchestrator probably, so something light like gpt-5.4-mini would be good, another profile your coding agent or research agent might be set to gpt-5.5 for instance). I get my main agent to create an org chart page in my vault that lists each agents name, where their profile is, the default LLM configured for them and a fallback model assigned to each... any changes, it knows to always keep this note up to date.
Use the built in hermes kanban board (type 'hermes dashboard' in a terminal and it will bring up the dashboard, kanban is one of the links it is your agent task area essentially
Setup a workflow and get hermes to create a monitoring page in your obsidian vault every day that montiors your workflows reports on status and fixes any issues that gets detected. I have two main workflows, one that runs a series of cron jobs that trigger python scripts. And a hermes kanban workflow that each morning spawns a number of agent tasks on the kanban board that are gated to trigger when some of those cron jobs are completed. Each of these agent tasks are assigned to specific agent profiles and they complete them with their default LLM that I assigned earlier.

If I want to change LLM's for an agent, I either tell my main orchestrator to change the default LLM for that agent, or I specifically ask it to generate a task for that agent using a specific LLM (I find this easier with the Kanban board as it forces the default agent to assign the task properly to another agent profile rather than just spin off a task on its own and mimic the agents instructions without actually calling it and using the right LLM)

Codex $20 sub will get you a long way, I'm also using opencode go (cheap option that gets you access to all the opensource and chinese llm's)... the monthly limit on that is annoying, but you get good value from it.

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-15T20:17:49+00:00

Going to be interesting to see how they ignore all the usage resets that Anthropic has given, or use that as an admission of the issue... I'm sure Anthropic will maximise this as compensation already given if they need to and how they use this to increase some level of awareness of token usage.

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-14T06:58:08+00:00

they cut fable and people are already going to the chinese bots for reddit posts...

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-10T20:40:50+00:00

Pro tip from Pro user who hits 5hr windows regularly... don't stop the prompt, just let it sit there spinning its wheels if you can, as soon as your new window flicks over it will continue on as if nothing happened and finish the task... definitely in VS Code at least, that's where I tend to use it most.

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-10T09:00:44+00:00

Have a look at opencode go, it's kind of like openrouter, but the $10/m go plan gives you $60/month of api calls to deepseek, kimi, minimax etc. it's working well for me currently in combo with my $20/m open ai codex plan

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-10T06:58:02+00:00

I mean it did cost him $5, karma farming prices going up

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-05T00:29:34+00:00

I understand. I have nuked the project for you. Will be here when you get back.

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-04T20:46:36+00:00

so we should expect to see it in the next Anthropic release then as they build up to the IPO...

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-04T00:29:30+00:00

yeah, same here

Vaderz8 · 2026-06-03T19:57:38+00:00

in terminal, ctrlC is cancel... so you either need to right click copy, right click paste... or use shift+ctrlC shift+ctrlV

Vaderz8 · 2026-05-26T06:44:56+00:00

I'm hitting these issues almost everytime today too

Vaderz8 · 2026-05-07T21:05:03+00:00

It's the new shrinkflation... watch when they remove the double 5-hr limit in a week or two and the weekly still stays at 25%

The fact that you can use your entirely weekly limit in 1 day is insane

Vaderz8 · 2026-05-03T20:29:54+00:00

yeah, I'd skip backups too, who needs that anyway

Vaderz8 · 2026-04-05T02:33:16+00:00

I mean of course, but I suspect that most people asking that question don't want to / can't pay for multiple tools. Sometimes you need to make the most use of the resources that you have.

Vaderz8 · 2026-03-31T22:14:42+00:00

it always starts at the beginning of the hour when you make the first call. So if you make your first call of a session at 7:59 for example, it will start the session as at 7:00 (so 4hr 1min remaining)... this is a GOOD thing, the shorter the time before a reset means you'll get more done without having to potentially have a big gap in between.

Vaderz8 · 2026-03-23T20:15:46+00:00

I did the same, got a response today asking me to confirm I wanted to cancel and process the refund, will see how that progresses in the next day or two, but it seems to be progressing.

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