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In what world would a Claude Code or Codex automation be appropriate here?

Even if the 15 minute interval wouldn't result in delays where no work is done and wasted invocations where none are needed, the UX of interacting with that as a personal assistant is obviously terrible.

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Anthropic explicitly says Duet checks connected accounts at set intervals to conserve usage. An urgent email could therefore arrive between checks. Anthropic hasn't documented Duet-specific event subscriptions or webhook triggers. Dots and Bots have some limited push functions, but the majority of their work is done via some version of cron. I think you overestimate now much of the value of these is based on very time sensitive workflows.

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