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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 lionkor »

fooster wrote: post #12
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.

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 these are things I want or need in the product I maintain with a team, there's really no point to any of this unless you run a vibe coded SaaS (?)

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

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Post by lionkor »

theptip wrote: post #39
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.

I am aware this is likely sarcasm, but in case it isn't, what do you gain from doing side projects this way?

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

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Post by deadbabe »

kurthr wrote: post #21
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…

Any sufficiently advanced satire...

Good news about hell: it doesn't exist. Bad news: Humans can pretty much create whatever they can imagine.

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

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Post by majorbugger »

drnick1 wrote: post #45

Giving sudo permissions to an agent seems reckless. Claude gets his own unprivileged UNIX account, no more. I don't bother with containers or VMs however.

I mean, what's the worst that can happen? A complete takeover of the box by a hacker via prompt injection or something similar?

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

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Post by deadbabe »

kdheiwns wrote: post #13
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.

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.

It really feels to me like this OpenClaw type stuff is the new "I built a static site generator!" type blogs that just post a few articles about how they built their generator.

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

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Post by artisinal »

lionkor wrote: post #58
artisinal wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I’m surprised that the author didn’t even refer to them as females.

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

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Post by thwarted »

ianm218 wrote: post #48
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!

Many Claude Code power users don’t really use IDEs anymore, so the only purpose of them working from their laptop instead of a phone is because that is the normal way to do it. Here is a real use case: you are are responsible for some alerting channel. You have datadog/ cloud logging/ github all connected. You see a bunch of alerts come through while you are out and about and you prompt CC to investigate - Claude tri…

You don't have an on-call rotation but do have people dedicated to vendor relationships, and that guy works on the weekend? I'm not sure how you completely avoid getting alerts on the weekend for third-party payment processor issues, which can happen anytime, if you actually want to transact business on the weekend.

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

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Post by theptip »

lionkor wrote: post #62
theptip wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I am aware this is likely sarcasm, but in case it isn't, what do you gain from doing side projects this way?

No sarcasm, I am completely serious.

I don’t have time for much leisure coding these days. I do have time to kick off a few tasks in the morning to progress my many side projects. Nothing public / oss, just code that I find useful/interesting like home automation, content pipelines, games, etc.

There are a bunch of cases where remote control from iOS onto a Mac Mini is simply nicer than using iOS Claude Code sandboxes.

It’s the same pattern as you (hopefully) apply at $dayjob. If you are not defining a /goal and letting your agent crank you are not making full use of the models’ capabilities.

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

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Post by esaym »

mmh0000 wrote: post #49
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…

This is neat, and thank you for sharing! I've been wanting to set up something exactly like this for my own use, but... You know, time is limited. This is just enough scaffolding to have a little project for Monday morning!

There are many ways and tools on linux to get a "VM" up and running. But with libvirt you can easy script out what the initial environment and network stack is. The heart of it is just running the 'virt-install' command, but as you can see I've got a bunch of other opinionated stuff going on before that.
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