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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 vcf »

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 run a lot of data science-type analyses that can take up to hours at a time to run, so Claude is « monitoring » tasks most of the time. I have it on remote-control so I get notified when a task is done or need clarification, but most importantly whenever I have a new idea, I can just ask Claude to queue it up. Most of the time my hardware is the bottleneck, not the subscription quotas.

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

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Post by artisinal »

mystifyingpoi wrote: post #20
artisinal wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Someone apparently made this

https://github.com/Grigorij-Dudnik/TinderGPT

> TinderGPT automates the process of writing and arranging dates with girls on Tinder, enabling you to generate romantic meetings with almost zero effort. Your only role is to like the profiles that catch your eye. After that, TinderGPT comes into the play. It initiates a conversation with the girl, using details from her profile, continues by building an emotional bond and highlighting your attractive traits, and finishes by arranging a meeting and giving you a push-up on your phone with her number.

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

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Post by mmh0000 »

chasd00 wrote: post #40
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.

If you want Anthropic (or others) but anonymously, what you do is use https://openrouter.ai/pricing and fund your account from any of your preferred cryptos.

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

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Post by fsflover »

booi wrote: post #47
somewhatrandom9 wrote: post #38

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 t…

An argument against this method is UTM doesn't support graphics acceleration so browser support will be hobbled. Even if you don't need the acceleration, I've found browsers in UTM virtualized OS's can't get past some modern captchas and other browser fingerprinting checkpoints :\. It's terrible but that's the way it is.

> browsers in UTM virtualized OS's can't get past some modern captchas and other browser fingerprinting checkpoints :\

I'm using Qubes OS, where everything runs in VMs without GPU acceleration, and never experienced this.

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

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Post by catoc »

vcf wrote: post #51
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 run a lot of data science-type analyses that can take up to hours at a time to run, so Claude is « monitoring » tasks most of the time. I have it on remote-control so I get notified when a task is done or need clarification, but most importantly whenever I have a new idea, I can just ask Claude to queue it up. Most of the time my hardware is the bottleneck, not the subscription quotas.

That makes sense - thanks. Do you use hooks for this?

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

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Post by iambenm »

weard_beard wrote: post #25

I've been putting off learning Claude and this article had me strongly considering jumping in. Then I looked up Anthropic pricing and its 100x more convoluted than cloud services management. Its a goddamn full time job and independent skill set figuring out how to prevent going bankrupt from AI usage! I think I'm gonna be a late adopter on this one until the industry figures out a less cumbersome pricing model.

Look at the subscriptions. That's how anyone using the stuff as an individual should be approaching it today if they are dealing directly with Anthropic or OpenAI.

With the $200 Claude subscription I was able to get around $13-15k of API equivalent usage in one month (note: this was during the "+50% usage" promotion that they have kept extending since May). When you hit your usage limit for a given time period you get cut off until the time period resets; don't bother paying for additional usage credits, you will be disappointed.

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

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Post by lionkor »

artisinal wrote: post #52
mystifyingpoi wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Someone apparently made this https://github.com/Grigorij-Dudnik/TinderGPT > TinderGPT automates the process of writing and arranging dates with girls on Tinder, enabling you to generate romantic meetings with almost zero effort. Your only role is to like the profiles that catch your eye. After that, TinderGPT comes into the play. It initiates a conversation with the girl, using details from her profile, continues by…

This is a sure way to get girls! Girls love being entirely commoditized and objectified, famously that's a great way to date! /s

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

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Post by lionkor »

croes wrote: post #27
phil21 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a lot of folks summarizing a few days of work email and especially slack chats is way more than 5 minutes. Some work environments do not have great communication hygiene so it can be overwhelming to try to keep up with 500 emails a day and 38 Slack channels. For the folks I talk to who use a LLM for this that seems to be the case. Takes a huge cognitive load off every morning and saves them an hour or two. More o…

And how can they be sure the summary correct and doesn’t miss anything important?

This is very much just laundering not giving a shit through an LLM so you can blame it after the fact.

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

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Post by jfb »

esaym wrote: post #46

Outside of the article's mentioned graphics development, there is no reason to isolate an agent using actual hardware. I threw together this script[0] using libvirt to give claude its own graphical desktop env to be able to do user acceptance testing with Chrome. It has full root and can do what ever. If it makes a mess, I can dump and reinstall in seconds. 0: https://gist.github.com/smith153/04b4068b5a2d7b234f1c3d59…

You can run macOS in a VM guest on a Mac host; Apple explicitly allows this.
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