Running AI for 30 Hours Straight: Dev Shares Coding Agent Best Practices
Confident-Ad-3212 · reddit · 2026-08-01
A developer shared their experience running an AI model continuously for a 30-hour complex task. By adding a skill file and an outline.md to provide sufficient context, the model stayed in the build phase and delivered outstanding results while consuming much less usage than expected. This highlights that providing structured resources is key to achieving great results in deep tasks.
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