Just out of curiosity: How did you mentally keep oversight of so many terminal doing things all around the place? Or is this done without too much oversight and do you just look at the results like sales volumes?
The terminals get a red background tint when they are running, and turn green when they are finished a task, amber if they need a response.
I’d always ask for a tldr, then just do some brief testing. Most of my prompts would run for an hour or more, so it was really just checking & responding to a few windows every hour while I do my other work.
It was always small tasks, given way too much compute, just so I could always be confident in the result. I always gave strict requirements, and if I was really lazy I’d say “iterate over this 10 times once finished, test everything, only come back to me with a blocker or if you have an extremely high level of certainty” some crap like that
It was a really lazy way to use AI, but it just worked well for me for the small tasks I needed to do, knew how, but wanted them automated, or if it was a once off - I just couldn’t be fucked, or busy with something else so I’d just ask a new terminal to do it.
Eg. My supplier is asking for sales forecast, fetch my sales from Shopify, look at seasonality from my stock-app and build a report and email to xxx@mysupplier.com - triple check it against Shopify, xero, report any anomalies
Then just blast that out on fable ultra code and it would rarely mess things like that up… I mean opus would hardly mess things like that up, but I’m just so short on time that I palm off any task I can, even tasks that might take just as long telling Claude but it’s much funner getting Claude to do it than repeating some process I’ve done a thousand times
Oh and I’m using codex in the meanwhile, it’s pretty good, but just finding its overall planning to not be as good, and it seems to have a tendency to over engineer. Maybe it’s just prompting I need to change, but I’d really like just one account to do planning with Fable, then pass to codex.
(Also, before people say “just pay API pricing” - it’s not worth it for how much money I am earning. $2600usd/month I know seems like a lot, but if I switched to API usage, it would be 10x that.
I import physical products from China and sell them online in Australia. Would prefer not to disclose my niche, but it’s the equivalent of selling bedding/pillows. Nothing at all unique or interesting, the products are good and well priced though.
Just out of curiosity: How did you mentally keep oversight of so many terminal doing things all around the place? Or is this done without too much oversight and do you just look at the results like sales volumes?
The terminals get a red background tint when they are running, and turn green when they are finished a task, amber if they need a response.
I’d always ask for a tldr, then just do some brief testing. Most of my prompts would run for an hour or more, so it was really just checking & responding to a few windows every hour while I do my other work.
It was always small tasks, given way too much compute, just so I could always be confident in the result. I always gave strict requirements, and if I was really lazy I’d say “iterate over this 10 times once finished, test everything, only come back to me with a blocker or if you have an extremely high level of certainty” some crap like that
It was a really lazy way to use AI, but it just worked well for me for the small tasks I needed to do, knew how, but wanted them automated, or if it was a once off - I just couldn’t be fucked, or busy with something else so I’d just ask a new terminal to do it.
Eg. My supplier is asking for sales forecast, fetch my sales from Shopify, look at seasonality from my stock-app and build a report and email to xxx@mysupplier.com - triple check it against Shopify, xero, report any anomalies
Then just blast that out on fable ultra code and it would rarely mess things like that up… I mean opus would hardly mess things like that up, but I’m just so short on time that I palm off any task I can, even tasks that might take just as long telling Claude but it’s much funner getting Claude to do it than repeating some process I’ve done a thousand times
Oh and I’m using codex in the meanwhile, it’s pretty good, but just finding its overall planning to not be as good, and it seems to have a tendency to over engineer. Maybe it’s just prompting I need to change, but I’d really like just one account to do planning with Fable, then pass to codex.
(Also, before people say “just pay API pricing” - it’s not worth it for how much money I am earning. $2600usd/month I know seems like a lot, but if I switched to API usage, it would be 10x that.
What's your business?
I import physical products from China and sell them online in Australia. Would prefer not to disclose my niche, but it’s the equivalent of selling bedding/pillows. Nothing at all unique or interesting, the products are good and well priced though.