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Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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post #8

I still don't understand what these freaks are doing running these agents 24/7 on machines. What are they doing? Managing a todo list? You mean crossing items off as you complete them? Research tasks? To do what? Never really get good answers. There is no killer app. Just bikeshedding.

I set it up out of curiosity a few months ago and realised I had no requirement for it whatsoever.

I’m actually very time-poor, so figured it could help be clawed back time doing… what exactly?

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

#12
post #8

I still don't understand what these freaks are doing running these agents 24/7 on machines. What are they doing? Managing a todo list? You mean crossing items off as you complete them? Research tasks? To do what? Never really get good answers. There is no killer app. Just bikeshedding.

I think you need to open your mind to the possibilities? For example:

- scanning logs for errors and

- opening issues which are then auto-triaged and

- PRs are opened for them and auto-reviewed and

- merged (and deployed).

This workflow alone is immensely powerful, and takes alot of burden off the team.

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

#13
post #8

I still don't understand what these freaks are doing running these agents 24/7 on machines. What are they doing? Managing a todo list? You mean crossing items off as you complete them? Research tasks? To do what? Never really get good answers. There is no killer app. Just bikeshedding.

It seems the main use case is having Claude automatically write blogposts about how great using Claude is, then submit them wherever necessary.

There's lots of news about the billions AI companies spend on data center construction, but it feels like it's not even a fraction of the money they're spending on endless nonstop blogs about how great their app is at doing... things. Things that will never be defined.

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

#14
post #8

I still don't understand what these freaks are doing running these agents 24/7 on machines. What are they doing? Managing a todo list? You mean crossing items off as you complete them? Research tasks? To do what? Never really get good answers. There is no killer app. Just bikeshedding.

Swiping Tinder. It takes about 5000 matches to get a date. It’s easier to just automate it. It automatically adds dates to my calendar, all I have to do is show up. I get a summary of our chat history (well, what the agent wrote to her) in the notes section of the calendar entry and some pointers and talking points for the date.

Maybe I should have the agent also do a background check.

PS: This is a joke, but feel free to steal this idea.

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

#15
post #12
post #8

I still don't understand what these freaks are doing running these agents 24/7 on machines. What are they doing? Managing a todo list? You mean crossing items off as you complete them? Research tasks? To do what? Never really get good answers. There is no killer app. Just bikeshedding.

I think you need to open your mind to the possibilities? For example: - scanning logs for errors and - opening issues which are then auto-triaged and - PRs are opened for them and auto-reviewed and - merged (and deployed). This workflow alone is immensely powerful, and takes alot of burden off the team.

> This workflow alone is immensely powerful, and takes alot of burden off the team.

ITSM those unsupervised workflows are essentially an attempt at purported productivity in the near term at the expense of meaningful incremental long term burden for teams.

The only ostensible benefit is in the eyes of the AI-psychotic tinkerer, who knows no better, or in those of the clout-chasing developer farming likes on their LinkedIn posts.

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

#16

I currently have Claude Desktop installed on a separate Mac mini M4 and control it with Dispatch. Is there a reason to do this method, it still seems the way I have it setup it has full control over the local account I gave it on the Mac mini.

Why would you need an M4 for this? If most of the "thinking" is happening on Anthropic's side, are you running particularly resource-intensive apps?

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

#17
post #8

I still don't understand what these freaks are doing running these agents 24/7 on machines. What are they doing? Managing a todo list? You mean crossing items off as you complete them? Research tasks? To do what? Never really get good answers. There is no killer app. Just bikeshedding.

Have it work down my jira tickets while I’m sitting on the porcelain throne

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

#18
I just redid my homelab/media server (switched from an old NUC I couldn’t figure out how to stop overheating even with some decent modification work, now using an hp elitedesk with an i5 processor that is handling my stack nicely). Thinking about setting up a vm on the base ubuntu install for isolation to run Claude in. May play with dispatch, may just put raw Claude code then use Moshi app on my iPhone and iPad.

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

#19
post #12
post #8

I still don't understand what these freaks are doing running these agents 24/7 on machines. What are they doing? Managing a todo list? You mean crossing items off as you complete them? Research tasks? To do what? Never really get good answers. There is no killer app. Just bikeshedding.

I think you need to open your mind to the possibilities? For example: - scanning logs for errors and - opening issues which are then auto-triaged and - PRs are opened for them and auto-reviewed and - merged (and deployed). This workflow alone is immensely powerful, and takes alot of burden off the team.

None of this requires running it 24/7.

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

#20
post #8

I still don't understand what these freaks are doing running these agents 24/7 on machines. What are they doing? Managing a todo list? You mean crossing items off as you complete them? Research tasks? To do what? Never really get good answers. There is no killer app. Just bikeshedding.

Swiping Tinder. It takes about 5000 matches to get a date. It’s easier to just automate it. It automatically adds dates to my calendar, all I have to do is show up. I get a summary of our chat history (well, what the agent wrote to her) in the notes section of the calendar entry and some pointers and talking points for the date. Maybe I should have the agent also do a background check. PS: This is a joke, but feel fr…

Crap, I totally believed this. We live in a dystopia already.
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