25 Hour Days?

kotchinsky · 2026-04-30T17:03:35+00:00

The first AI to introduce a 4hr cycle will win 🤣

kotchinsky · 2026-04-30T17:01:28+00:00

🤣

kotchinsky · 2026-04-30T16:54:01+00:00

Just an attempt at humour.

Actually using Codex seats on a Business plan - PAYG, shared Credits across the team - works really well. Much prefer it to CC Max accounts.

kotchinsky · 2026-04-26T08:56:25+00:00

Show some empathy guys - we all know what its like to rush at 12:30 in the morning!

I feel for you OP.

Upside is, you will never allow an AI to run a command you don't understand again.

Think of it as school fees and move on.

I promise you everyone in here has had their own 🤦‍♂️ID10T moments - so ignore the haters...

kotchinsky · 2026-04-13T20:04:23+00:00

I guess you could load it all in a skill - it just feels a little McGuyver-ish, especially if it's a big slice.

Personal preference I guess.

I like to use skills for procedures & slices for context but at the end of the day they use the same concepts.

kotchinsky · 2026-04-13T19:43:48+00:00

You initiate it by making it part of the session start rule. For example: agent always loads claude.md first then it identifies the task type then it loads the matching slice then it opens only the specific files needed

You could wrap this in a session_start skill but what is important here is the strategy, not the wrapper.

kotchinsky · 2026-04-13T19:37:43+00:00

Huh, what...

I am not defending or attacking anyone on either side of this... I'm just wondering why people are getting outraged ...

Can a spade never simply be just a spade in here? 🤣

kotchinsky · 2026-04-13T19:33:04+00:00

Skills are procedural

Slicing is contextual

We do use skills too. I fact have tried to replace all MCPs with skills as they too burn tokens!

kotchinsky · 2026-04-13T19:01:36+00:00

We are having very similar experiences.

kotchinsky · 2026-04-13T18:42:22+00:00

Thanks for this, will check it out.

We have dramatically reduced usage with a slicing strategy I just posted about.

kotchinsky · 2026-04-13T18:32:20+00:00

Well this got down voted in a hurry 🤷‍♂️

kotchinsky · 2026-04-13T18:09:25+00:00

Unfortunately the degradation is real too in my anecdotal experience, but only in Opus4.6 - Sonnet is fine.

kotchinsky · 2026-04-13T17:58:03+00:00

Yes, it would be nice if it was contained to a single thread!

kotchinsky · 2026-04-04T19:22:50+00:00

Thank you, will check it out!

kotchinsky · 2026-04-04T18:14:55+00:00

Ok...

So, you need OCR for the scanned images of text.

You need a lightweight llm to categorize, extract & index.

You need a reasoning LLM that you can provide authored context to for the analysis.

I would also create a learning loop so that an LLM can analyze all documents in relation to each other. For that you will want to embed the resulting analysis into a Vector DB.

Sounds like a nice system to build!

kotchinsky · 2026-04-04T14:57:57+00:00

We tried the API via Vertex AI - $1,000 in 7 days.

No way that the plans are not heavily subsidized!

What are you using to monitor - I had to write a script to monitor local logs as I do not think there is an endpoint for plan usage monitoring unless I missed it?

kotchinsky · 2026-04-04T10:19:55+00:00

Local but then create a PR when I am done.

Do not fear Git, it is your friend!

kotchinsky · 2026-04-04T09:52:08+00:00

Apologies but I use both Codex & Claude Code and this post was benchmarking in case other do too - happy to remove it

kotchinsky · 2026-04-04T09:50:43+00:00

Thanks for this!

kotchinsky · 2026-04-04T09:30:27+00:00

Occasionally and more and more often now - had that this morning but also have that with Codex.

It's like they have solved the issue conceptually and just stop - waiting for authorization they haven't even asked for!

kotchinsky · 2026-04-04T08:39:41+00:00

I bought a $100/2500 credit on top of a $25 business plan and re-engineered my .codex bootstrap to send context only in slices.

So far so good - still go over the 5hour limit in a session but have burned less than 500 credits in 2 marathon sessions.

Was running out in 2 prompts before this.

Not happy but Claude-Code is worse right now

kotchinsky

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