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Re: Ask HN: What do you do while ChatGPT-5 is thinking?

#11

Anki. Or pushups. Anki and AnkiDroid are perfect for filling in those few minutes throughout the day. And if you're in a private environment, a small set of pushups a few times a day keep you awake and make you feel great.

the pushups are a great idea

Re: Ask HN: What do you do while ChatGPT-5 is thinking?

#13
This is a timely and interesting topic, I was just thinking about this the other day. What I've been doing lately is context switching between two different tasks, which is not ideal and you do forget what's going on between the two. The alternative seems to be to just be idle. I'm trying to prepare myself for a future where agents are much more autonomous, and I can give them tasks and just have them go run with them. This seems like the path to that, but if anyone has better ideas, I'm all for hearing them.

Re: Ask HN: What do you do while ChatGPT-5 is thinking?

#14

Anki. Or pushups. Anki and AnkiDroid are perfect for filling in those few minutes throughout the day. And if you're in a private environment, a small set of pushups a few times a day keep you awake and make you feel great.

Oh this is actually a good idea!

I’m a heavy Anki user but haven’t considered doing Anki while waiting on LLM responses.

Disclaimer: I’m also the creator of https://www.raycast.com/anton-suprun/anki

(Made it to make studying Anki cards and adding cards more convenient and more keyboard friendly)

Re: Ask HN: What do you do while ChatGPT-5 is thinking?

#15

Anki. Or pushups. Anki and AnkiDroid are perfect for filling in those few minutes throughout the day. And if you're in a private environment, a small set of pushups a few times a day keep you awake and make you feel great.

Oh this is actually a good idea! I’m a heavy Anki user but haven’t considered doing Anki while waiting on LLM responses. Disclaimer: I’m also the creator of https://www.raycast.com/anton-suprun/anki (Made it to make studying Anki cards and adding cards more convenient and more keyboard friendly)

Raycast is a desktop AI agent?

I see that your extension supports specific Anki note types. I really heavily on custom note types. Is there an interface to add support for custom note types? Does it run on Linux?

Re: Ask HN: What do you do while ChatGPT-5 is thinking?

#16

I'm always prompting. I let Gemini calendar my time (Google Calendar, of course) so that there are zero gaps where unwanted human thought could sneak in. I use an agent manager called Pelican to check in with all of my agents every second and have them tell me what I should be working on next using meta-agents, which are agents running tools in a loop to run tools in a loop. It's super effective!

I can’t tell if this is a serious post or not…

That's my secret Captain, I'm always prompting

Re: Ask HN: What do you do while ChatGPT-5 is thinking?

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh this is actually a good idea! I’m a heavy Anki user but haven’t considered doing Anki while waiting on LLM responses. Disclaimer: I’m also the creator of https://www.raycast.com/anton-suprun/anki (Made it to make studying Anki cards and adding cards more convenient and more keyboard friendly)

Raycast is a desktop AI agent? I see that your extension supports specific Anki note types. I really heavily on custom note types. Is there an interface to add support for custom note types? Does it run on Linux?

> Raycast is a desktop AI agent

No - it is a MacOS launcher app. This Spotlight but with quite a few more features and very extensible (especially if you code) and has a large open source extension community (mine is just one of many)

> does it run on Linux?

Sadly no, only Mac for now but I think they’re expanding to Windows and Linux on future.

> custom note types

Not really sadly :/

I want to add many improvements including this but I don’t have capacity right now - hands full with another project

Re: Ask HN: What do you do while ChatGPT-5 is thinking?

#19
When using codex-cli / Claude Code, I look for opportunities to improve either the AGENTS.md file based on the path that the LLM is taking or to improve repo structure, docs, var names, etc that might help make things more clear in the future. Since this is still somewhat task related, I can usually stay focused.

I haven't had much luck doing two completely different tasks at the same time. At net I think it slows me down due to the context switching.

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