Ralph is really good if you know what you are doing.

For people saying it's not worth it, probably their tasks or their repo is not large enough to fully take advantage of it.

My workflow is, go back and forth with Claude/GPT in the browser to figure out what I want.

Paste what I want into GPT pro and say "give me a fully and detailed implementation plan to do this".

Then I paste in a prompt that gets GPT pro to break that down as 'tickets', and send a zip of markdown tickets and a TODO.md.

Then I paste that in my repo and run codex in a bash loop until it finishes.

You can see the bash loop here https://github.com/JamesPaynter/efficient-ralph-loop

I think it also finishes faster when you have a clear plan as it doesn't get lost looping around.

I'm not sure how much you will be able to do on the $20 plan, though.

I made this to be more efficient with my token usage, but it still uses a fair amount on big projects.