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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 troupo »

theptip wrote: post #69
lionkor wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 sandboxe…

On all projects I've run any of the models they:

- infinitely duplicate any and all code, helpers and components

- infinitely duplicate CSS (because they duplicate components)

- continuously write code like "read the entire db into memory and run a filter function on retrieved data"

- continuously write code like "call db with multiple queries for each element in a list"

- etc. etc.

Why the hell would I ever want to run them unsupervised?

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

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Post by hangrybear666 »

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 mean you had claude throw together a script because this is heavily generated. Lost interest after about 250 lines, it's just tiresome reading through this incoherent amalgamation

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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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 hangrybear666 »

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…

Yeah good luck being employed in 3 years once this bubble popped when all you do is type some natural language into a phone screen. People being proud of not using an IDE anymore is such a foreign concept to me, who enjoys coding and got into the profession because of the love of that.

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

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Post by airstrike »

fooster wrote: post #85
airstrike wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 Lin…

Really they're not. But it seems you have decided that you, above all, know best.

I started my post with "it seems to me" precisely because I haven't decided that I know best.

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

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Post by gitowiec »

jfb wrote: post #60
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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Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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Post by hangrybear666 »

j45 wrote: post #73
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!

It's less about 24/7. It's more about it can't work when your laptop is in your bag and in transit and there is something that you have set up and want to run.

Oh yeah sounds great working in your free time and while traveling to buy groceries to feed yourself so you can continue working.

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

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Post by dandaka »

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!

Few cases I have found very useful myself

1/ Using GUI software. My agents are using headful Google Chrome and Figma. It helps a lot to have separate environment, which is not interfering my main machine.

2/ Running long processes (1h+), so I can leave main machine closed.

3/ Running intensive processes. I use Gemma, Whisper and Qwen, which could burn main machine CPU and resources.

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

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Post by hangrybear666 »

brandnewideas wrote: post #32

You people are too far gone

Yeah these guys will set up claude on their third pc after they realize their second pc keeps hallucinating out code nobody cares about or needs in hopes of staying relevant. I'll just keep coding by hand because I ACTUALLY ENJOY it. What a novel concept these days.

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

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Post by esaym »

hangrybear666 wrote: post #102
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 mean you had claude throw together a script because this is heavily generated. Lost interest after about 250 lines, it's just tiresome reading through this incoherent amalgamation

Yeah bro, you can just use AI!
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