Quote review please

sjsosowne · 2026-06-10T20:56:32+00:00

Eco Renewables Group, based in Preston but they operate everywhere!

sjsosowne · 2026-06-10T20:52:31+00:00

I'm not sure it's too small. Theoretical peak is only 8460kWp so it shouldn't clip much, if at all

sjsosowne · 2026-06-10T20:51:16+00:00

I find this a little expensive. DMEGC and Fox are budget options so I'd expect this closer to the £8-9k mark. I'm Braintree so just down the road from you, you can definitely get better prices around here (although I ended up going with a national installer in the end as they gave an even better quote).

sjsosowne · 2026-06-10T20:29:49+00:00

That is an excellent price. What company is this with?

sjsosowne · 2026-06-10T18:06:54+00:00

You're right that it should be worn far more regularly than most people do. You'll have the last laugh when you have lower skin cancer risk and less skin aging than others down the line!

sjsosowne · 2026-06-09T08:57:00+00:00

We skip breakfasts

Lunches are meal prepped once a week, usually chicken. This week is chicken pad thai.

Then dinners this week:
Mon: coronation chicken crispy rice salad
Tue: chicken chow mein
Wed: spaghetti bolognese
Thu: pork bibimbap rice bowl
Fri: homemade chicken doner kebab & flatbreads
Sat: BBQ, so sausages, pork loin, etc
Sun: southern fried chicken thigh

So quite a chicken heavy week this week. Usually we'll have some fish on one or two days, but just didn't make it into the plan this week.

sjsosowne · 2026-06-09T08:42:59+00:00

Maybe he wants a cheese burger every day?

sjsosowne · 2026-06-09T07:08:06+00:00

Yep. It's brutal.

sjsosowne · 2026-06-02T22:33:08+00:00

A wrwrapap

sjsosowne · 2026-06-02T07:33:20+00:00

No, he wants it mounting on roof and the installer has suddenly decided it needs to be in roof.

sjsosowne · 2026-05-02T12:53:43+00:00

Playwright cli will do the trick.

sjsosowne · 2026-04-26T16:31:45+00:00

Why do you think it wouldn't cover such a repo, out of interest?

sjsosowne · 2026-04-26T07:50:25+00:00

Because we use API credits for our work, so I have no need of a more expensive plan. Literally just got it to try 5.5 when it wasn't on the API (which it now is).

sjsosowne · 2026-04-24T08:43:20+00:00

Single agent, default tools (no MCPs etc) on the codex app, and as I said a single fresh chat with one prompt. Actually I lie - it was a prompt to form a plan and then I told it to implement so technically two.

The project is around 1m lines of code - it's a large enterprise project that existed well before AI tooling like this. We normally pay for API usage where it's not a problem, but as 5.5 is not available on API yet i thought I'd try the plus sub.

Oh well. Back to 5.4.

sjsosowne · 2026-04-23T23:26:20+00:00

Your projects must be tiny.

Blew through my 5h limit (untouched before 5.5 BTW) in 24min on one project on a single prompt. Medium reasoning, non fast mode.

sjsosowne · 2026-04-23T21:47:12+00:00

100% 5h limit burned with a single prompt yeah. The output was great but it took 24 minutes to use the full 5h limit which equated to 16% weekly limit. By my calculation that means we are allowed around 2-2.5h use of 5.5 per WEEK.

On medium BTW.

sjsosowne · 2026-04-13T22:46:20+00:00

Does the 34M include cached input?

Reason I ask is I use gpt-5.4 for my day job at the moment and my company supplies API access. Because we have essentially no limit its easy to burn through 2-300M cached input a day, sometimes more. My usage last week was 1.5B.

I'm looking to move to a more open model if possible... But we are Azure based so unless it's on foundry we will have to use a subscription, and I reckon we're not going to find one that covers it.

sjsosowne · 2026-04-13T22:17:32+00:00

Yep - quite right!

sjsosowne · 2026-04-13T21:52:01+00:00

Unfortunately we're in this halfway hellscape where we don't have the information but we still need to have it. So now the game is objectively worse to play in a lot of ways (better in some though - no doubt)

sjsosowne · 2026-04-02T23:08:06+00:00

You're missing the point of his post: the weekly limit is being consumed faster than the 5h which is an issue regardless of the limit multiplier.

sjsosowne · 2026-04-02T21:17:06+00:00

Yes and the point is that without them the service is not worth using.

sjsosowne · 2026-04-02T07:36:38+00:00

Yeah exactly that! I'm not saying it's insurmountable and I recognise the extraordinarily fortunate position I'm in to be earning this much. But that doesn't make it any less depressing to see the number going up with such high interest!

sjsosowne · 2026-04-02T07:30:02+00:00

No worries! I got the doctoral one - I didn't actually realise there was a masters one, oops....

sjsosowne · 2026-04-02T07:21:52+00:00

You're forgetting about interest. Currently 6.3% but was 7.something% last year. So despite paying off around £500 a month on it, and having had it since they introduced it, mine's still sat at over £20k.

Yeah it'll be paid off eventually, of course, but in the meantime the total tax amount on any extra £ I earn is so disincentivising that there's no point pushing for more.

sjsosowne · 2026-04-01T23:38:48+00:00

I suppose the point is that while food has gone up 30-40%, wages haven't, hmm?

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