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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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Why a laptop at all? Why not just use a VM in the cloud and just a CLI interface?

This can work, but increasingly there is benefit from local, including places that want data to be secure and not in the cloud. This is a thing. It's normal. It's just new to people who haven't realized how common it is.

Agents running as root and data to be secure do not fit well in the same sentence

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

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Do you do software development? Is there any work left at the end of the day? Have it do that stuff.

I always have to correct its hallucinations during the day . Why would I ever let it run unsupervised overnight?

Running tests and optimize?

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

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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.

If you got into the industry due to enjoying the typing of code the future is looking pretty bleak.

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

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I always have to correct its hallucinations during the day . Why would I ever let it run unsupervised overnight?

Running tests and optimize?

Running tests that the agent created for its own hallucinations? Optimize using another hallucinating agent?

Which tests and optimizations do you propose to run after a night of supervised work when one of main things that all agents keep doing is "load all records from db , and filter them in memory"? It's now become so bad, I had to literally vibecode a separate linter for this. And that's just one of the problems.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The “debugging” for these type of issues is looking at some logs and http responses and being like “ah if we get this error it means they restarted their firewall again and took us off the whitelist. Email that guy Joe at the bank and hope he responds”. It’s not rocket science or the majority of my job… but someone’s needs to do it. We automate all the stuff we can.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you got into the industry due to enjoying the typing of code the future is looking pretty bleak.

I dunno.

I've been watching "How it's made" on Hulu to fall asleep at night.

I’m constantly surprised by how many things are made with human hands, despite the ability to automate.

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