The getting is good (optimizing unattended runs)

What a time to be alive! Some people posted about how to do cheaper better faster vision and it ended up in fable. Some people posted about how to do cheaper better faster speculative decoding and it ended up in grok 4.5. There's currently massive differences between models in how long you can leave it unattended running on host with sudo without things going haywire. I don't have a bar chart, but opus tends to break my hosts within 2 agent-hours, gemini 3 pro within 12 agent-hours, and gpt 5.5 ...