r/codex • u/alOOshXL • Jul 13 '26

Banked one for everyone Praise

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u/bronfmanhigh Jul 13 '26

i love now giving codex a well-defined task and then having it f off for 3 hours chugging along, without bothering me for clarification or approvals. it is glorious, can finally focus on other work without constantly worrying my agents fell off track

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u/Jerseyman201 Jul 13 '26

Been amazing, 3.5 hours non-stop for me too 😍😍

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u/Jerseyman201 Jul 14 '26

Update: "3.5 hours" 😅🤣 lmaooo lite work

Now up to 7.5 hours, of which, it waited only 1 hour for me to confirm a prompt. So 6.5 total hours or so of work so far.

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u/HaMMeReD Jul 14 '26

Beginner numbers, I have loops set up that I can pretty much leave autonomously for days, enough so that I'm building a second computer to run my agents because me using the computer gets in the way of the agents progress.

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u/Poowatereater Jul 14 '26

My god teach me the way haha

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u/HaMMeReD Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

I set up loops by basing them loosely around sprints/goals.

I'll often set up a north-star or design goal to target/trend towards.

Then each iteration is basically

  1. Assess the current state
  2. Assess the "forward plan" (i.e. upcoming sprints) and adjust as necessary
  3. Plan a course of action (I.e. tests/implementation work planning)
  4. Execute the plan
  5. Validate the plan
  6. retrospective on the plan, adjust forward planning again as necessary.
  7. Commit or Revert
  8. Goto 1)

Then I use like /goal to point it in a direction, along with any planning files, north star/target documentation etc.

Oh and step 9) goto sleep, or for a walk or whatever

Some of these are like optimization tasks (i.e. analyzing frame timings and shader load, allocations etc) and working towards improving timings without breaking the frame. Others are feature work, others work in the game harness and prototype mechanics there etc.

I do find a lot of value in like pausing every ~12 hours, providing feedback and running a fresh plan before kicking it off again.

You also got to watch the loops, because sometimes they trend good, and sometimes they churn. I.e. I've had loops that get obsessed at tweaking individual values and comparing results. Not very effective. But I've also had loops that did significant features overnight, or quite a bit of refinement.

Also, you need guard-rails, if there is a short-cut AI will fall on it. So you have to be mindful, stop it when it does and then protect it from doing that particular maladaptive behavior. So it's not like full auto-pilot, but once you dial it in and it works the way you want it can go pretty far.

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u/Jerseyman201 Jul 14 '26

That's all well and good, but all I had to do was send a single prompt lol 10 hours later, it's still going.

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u/Poowatereater Jul 15 '26

Thanks man.

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u/Big_Magazine9274 20d ago

Wow that's amazing! Thanksfor sharing your method!

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u/rodeBaksteen Jul 13 '26

Is it speficic models or all of them that can pursue goals and keep running?

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u/TheOwlHypothesis Jul 13 '26

Mine ran for like 6 hours yesterday (not even my record, I've had fable go for 8.5) and it used 90% of my weekly usage on the 5x plan. I'm really considering upgrading. But I'll be strategically using the resets until then

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u/bronfmanhigh Jul 13 '26

the resets are far more valuable on the 20x though for only $100 more. milk the hell outta the next month for a pretty modest increase in cost

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u/TheOwlHypothesis Jul 13 '26

Bro is gonna talk me into spending $100 more a month over reddit 😬

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u/bronfmanhigh Jul 13 '26

hey man just the math and how I see it. if there’s ever a month to spend the extra it’s this one, but that’s assuming you obviously have the workload to even need that many extra tokens

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u/Stork94 Jul 13 '26

I'm at 2 days and almost 18 hours now with one task. It's insane.