His overnight agent workflow wrote usable code but cost more to fix than it saved, so he dropped it

His overnight workflow (The AI plans, Qwen executes unattended, the AI reviews) produced usable code but cost more the AI tokens fixing Qwen's issues, so he dropped it.

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How it works

The AI plans the work
A local model executes unattended overnight
The AI reviews
The fixing costs more strong-model tokens than the setup saves, so he drops it

Why it’s worth knowing

The cheap model's mistakes were billed at the expensive model's rates.

Where it’s from

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

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