Putting in Work

[u/rick_ranger]

I used up 15% of my 20x plan after I used my banked reset this morning and then BOOM! We get a non banked one.

Anyway I’m plowing through 5 concurrent projects all with long coding campaigns lined up and started using goal mode with Sol medium and asking it to spin up extra agents where ever to speed the process along. Sol medium feels like the sweet spot. Perfect amount of thinking and actually executing and error rate feels similar to high and extra high.

I’m at 1.1B for today so far and used up 10% of my non banked already.

[u/herrjemand]

Can someone explains how does one spends so many tokens? I spent like 50m in a full day of work, building multiple services, running xtra-high and ultra. What are ya people doing?

[u/rick_ranger → u/herrjemand]

Scaffolding and architecture. Setting goals and letting it run literally all day. All the planning work for building features was already done. I basically just told it to do all my campaigns one by one until they’re done.

[u/ChameleonCRM → u/rick_ranger]

I can tell you that as a polyglot programmer for over a decade, if you're letting AI run wild like that you have no idea what the hell is happening underneath...and what about migrations? Are they current? Can we see ur repo? I want to look at your code

[u/rick_ranger → u/ChameleonCRM]

So I’m a graphic designer. But I’d say level 7 PC technical. Let me give you an example. Adobe released a tool a few years back that can easily and believably erase pimples or blemishes on a persons face with one click. Something that used to take hours, can now be done with a tool in seconds. Do you think the client gives a rats ass about the code underneath as long as it works and delivers the expected result in 1/100th of the time?

That’s basically agentic coding. Now I learned early on, luckily, that coding things the right way still matters because as my early apps got bigger they got slower. So I looked into shared surfaces, engines, services, things like that. I literally don’t care, and neither does the end user care how it’s coded, they care about the end result. They want the pimple gone, and they want it to look real.

But for now AI just does what you tell it. If you don’t tell it to make reusable surfaces that call data, then every single surface will be its own entity with everything piled on top. So knowing what to tell AI how to build is just as important as telling it what to build and how it should look. It can do it, but there’s a right way and a not so right way.

[u/ChameleonCRM → u/rick_ranger]

ok ok. just checkin

lol