# The getting is good (optimizing unattended runs)

> Source: <https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xcEuZhuZGeExoYazj/the-getting-is-good-optimizing-unattended-runs>
> Published: 2026-07-16 17:39:52+00:00

What a time to be alive!

Some people posted about how to do cheaper better faster vision and it ended up in fable.

Some people posted about how to do cheaper better faster speculative decoding and it ended up in grok 4.5.

There's currently massive differences between models in **how long you can leave it unattended running on host with sudo without things going haywire**.

I don't have a bar chart, but opus tends to break my hosts within 2 agent-hours, gemini 3 pro within 12 agent-hours, and gpt 5.5 within 24 agent-hours. Then they use all ram or change ssh perms or delete the data or whatever. I ran qwen 3.5 122b on bare host for 50 agent-weeks (50 parallel for one week) with no observed ill effects!

All the labs and all their customers want "the thing i asked for actually got done" and they all want "the model's summary reflects reality" and so on.

What an opportunity! You can just post a method for "how to make ai tell truth" or "how to minimize side effects" and it will probably end up in the next frontier models
