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How is that a great prompt having it run for an hour without your input? Sounds like it’s just generating wasteful output.

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Who said it was writing code for an hour? Solving complex problems by problem solving, writing SQL, querying data, analyzing data. formulating plans.

What do you do for hours?

If all you're thinking about is code output, you're thinking too small.

You should really read this.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4

It was given a task and it solved a problem by operating for 7 hours straight.

With 7 hour tasks it might become worthwhile to invest in a RAM-based local solution with DeepSeek Coder? I've heard that you can run it with 300-700GB. With such long tasks, Claude may run out of usage, right? So queueing it up on a local server may make sense? Always looking for an excuse to do things in-house, but it has to make sense :)

I have not tested Claude Code but that's impressive because other agents get stuck long before that.

Takes proper prompt crafting but Claude Code is really impressive.

It can be fixing unit tests and stuff for quite a while, but I usually find it cheats the goal when unattended.

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