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The AI routines run his two long projects every few hours, inside a hard spending cap

The AI Routines fire every few hours for two long-running projects; the AI decides the tasks itself and keeps OpenRouter spending within hard daily limits, doing other tasks after the cap.

How it works

  1. Agent routines fire every few hours for two long-running projects
  2. The agent decides the tasks itself
  3. Keeps API spending within hard daily limits while doing other tasks

Why it’s worth knowing

The hard daily limit is what makes self-chosen tasks acceptable.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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