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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 ludamad »

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

I don't know what sort of shell scripts you've had to review in your day... I used to get far worse shell scripts, assuredly

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

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Post by bschwindHN »

hangrybear666 wrote: post #109
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.

Just letting you know you're not alone in coding by hand.

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

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Post by fatata123 »

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…

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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 j45 »

hangrybear666 wrote: post #111
j45 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I agree, and it's not necessary for agents to run as root and full access to data.

There has always been a trade off sold to consumers of security vs convenience and a belief that giving up a little security gets a lot of convenience.

It ends up being often about a convenience of adopting the new tech, not necessarily in a way that's in the best long term interests of each party.

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

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Post by fatata123 »

fooster wrote: post #134
troupo wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> scanning logs for errors famously a good job for a tool that takes 10-50k logs to run out of context and forget what it's doing.

Not really? Imagine for example looking for http status code 500 in an api log over the past hour. The nice thing here is it doesn’t matter if you get them all because it’s reoccur (or not).

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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 trollbridge »

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

Form an LLC, open bank account for the LLC, and use that.

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

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Post by deadbabe »

vessenes wrote: post #90
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.

Let me guess -- in your day job you don't manage people. I have agents parsing messages, building out document sets, evaluating existing document sets, one is currently fixing a giant backlog of bugs and feature requests for a multi year personal coding project, one is exploring some ideas on speeding up inference at the edge.. If you put yourself in a position where you need more leverage (technical or operating) I…

Given all the automation you do, it sounds like you don't really manage people either.
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