Thibault Sottiaux, Engineering Lead on OpenAI's Codex team, proposed adding batch compute support to Codex under the label slow mode for handling compute-intensive coding tasks through grouped or delayed processing
Vaibhav Srivastav supported the proposal for long-running goal tasks.
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@thsottiaux Yes
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@thsottiaux Yes there are often tasks I can kick off before bed that don’t take 8 hours and I would be happy to pay less to go slow.
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@thsottiaux 100% yes!! Specially for long /goal tasks!
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@thsottiaux For automations yes!
I always have a bunch I run at random times in the morning.
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