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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 »

vcf wrote: post #137
troupo wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> take up to hours at a time to run, so Claude is « monitoring » tasks most of the tim How is Claude monitoring them for hours? Claude runs out of context and extremely long sessions are prohibitively expensive even according to Anthropic (after they dispense with the marketing bullshit of long running tasks)?

It launches these tasks in the background. It became really good at it a couple of months ago, now it sets monitors on timer (not something I instructed, so I assumed it’s part of the system prompt for this kind of tasks) and then just wait for the next prompt, for the background process to be done, or for a monitor to trigger a checkup.

> and then just wait for the next prompt

A single session running for multiple hours is prohibitively expensive, as per Anthropic. Regardless of whether it just waits for a prompt or does something.

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

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Post by bsder »

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…

> Many Claude Code power users don’t really use IDEs anymore

This is something we of the HN bubble take for granted. Most of us know how to type quickly and use editors and use macros and program scripting languages and compose regexes.

The vast majority of programmers do not know those things. As such, AI speeds them up tremendously.

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

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Post by binsquare »

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!

I also have a light weight cross platform virtual machine with egress filtering if you're looking for an even more batteries included approach.

https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm

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

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Post by naiveter »

troupo wrote: post #161
vcf wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It launches these tasks in the background. It became really good at it a couple of months ago, now it sets monitors on timer (not something I instructed, so I assumed it’s part of the system prompt for this kind of tasks) and then just wait for the next prompt, for the background process to be done, or for a monitor to trigger a checkup.

> and then just wait for the next prompt A single session running for multiple hours is prohibitively expensive, as per Anthropic. Regardless of whether it just waits for a prompt or does something.

Is the high expense coming from cache misses? If their workload does need to wait for a long time before it can continue, I wonder would starting new sessions and having to re-read the contexts and results anyway be any cheaper.

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

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Post by naiveter »

aeve890 wrote: post #156
bagels wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NFTs are not useful, claude is.

>claude is How? I mean what could be the ultimate usefulness of Claude if not to make money, just like NFT but with extra steps. Most people isn't using Claude to make massive paradigm shift breakthrough discoveries. Nobody's curing cancer nor solving climate change. Probably the most common use case for llms it's just speed up the grind and make money. Like nfts.

If curing cancer or solving climate change is your definition of usefulness, almost anything humans do is useless, probably including your own profession. Though I don't want to speculate. Speculation is precisely why NFTs are stupid. Claude, on the other hand, if used effectively, can speed up people's work and increase productivity.

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

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Post by pjmlp »

bagels wrote: post #87
brandnewideas wrote: post #32

You people are too far gone

You're being left behind.

Eventually everyone will be without a job other than the Bros working at AI companies.

Or the bubble will implode and we see ourselves at the job queue anyway.

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

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Post by naiveter »

mmh0000 wrote: post #53
chasd00 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is the way.

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

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Post by lelanthran »

thwarted wrote: post #68
ianm218 wrote: post #48

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…

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.

> 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 an account manager. My clients will phone at almost any time, weekends included, if they feel there issue wasn't yet looked at by the on call dev.

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