What took a week now takes ~5 minutes with Sol or Opus coding agents
D3VAUX · x · 2026-10-30
The author reports that work which used to take about a week can now be done in roughly 5 minutes by telling Sol or Opus. An attached screenshot shows a 3.36M-parameter music Transformer in training: a corpus of 18,363 phrases (9,816 from MIDI files, 8,547 procedurally generated), audited with no invalid notes or composition-group leakage across train/val/test splits, running 4,000 GPU steps.
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