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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 by rootsudo »

artisinal wrote: post #14
deadbabe wrote: 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…

It works well enough for bumble web, just make sure you have rate limiting..

Then the openclaw WhatsApp module…

Kidding of course.

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

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Post by catoc »

kushie wrote: post #33
catoc wrote: post #24

I just cannot come up with a good AI-is-actually-24/7-helping-me-out use case. Please help: I wánt to need this!

i like using /remote-control to keep vibe dev running smoothly against my usage limits and deadlines

Running Claude code 24/7 on a code base on that “second Mac” so you can always continue after a usage limit reset, from your main device or from your phone?

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

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Post by somewhatrandom9 »

Though it doesn't get by all the hurdles mentioned, it is alternatively possible to run Mac OS in a VM on your Mac using UTM and install Claude Code within the UTM VM. UTM can be run under a non-admin Mac account. This can allow you to use most Mac-native tooling, at least. The interactive performance of using the Claude Code ui on the VM isn't great, however. I'm not sure if you can log into the VM via terminal on the host from the non-root admin account to avoid the ui performance issues.

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

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Post by theptip »

deadbabe wrote: 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.

If you can’t think up enough coding projects to keep an agent busy in the background that’s a skill issue on your side.

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

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Post by chasd00 »

threethirtytwo wrote: post #30

What's a good way to give a limited amount of money to the LLM, say like 2k or 5k or something. But keep it completely separate from my identity. Like I want the LLM to have a bank account and he can do ANYTHING with that bank account that he wants. But he can't fuck anything up that has to so with me. He only has 2 - 5k

Idk how you could at least in the US. Closest thing off the top of my head would be one of those checking accounts you can setup for kids. It would still be tied to you.
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