Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

ykdojo.github.io

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

171–180 of 213 posts

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

#171

Post by intromert »

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!

The other day I used Claude Cowork to create a checklist for me so that I can safely re-install my laptop... It went through all ssh configuration, apps, downloads, documents etc... Once I had the checklist, I asked it to do the backup itself, along with instructions to re-install/setup everything once I had the laptop re-installed. This was something I was procrastinating for too long already...

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

#173

Post by OJFord »

evan_ wrote: post #151
ianm218 wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I said vendor here but it’s more like banks we work with. So there’s someone responsible for the technical side of banking relationships. But yeah it’s kinda a zone where most weekends there’s no problems so it’s not a huge priority… until it is

somehow having a contact at a bank who works on the weekend is more difficult to believe than a random vendor

I don't know what exactly GP works on, but 'bank' covers a lot of ground and some things happen on weekends. 'Open Banking' APIs, and some payment rails for example.

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

#174

Post by compiler-devel »

vcf wrote: post #51
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!

I run a lot of data science-type analyses that can take up to hours at a time to run, so Claude is « monitoring » tasks most of the time. I have it on remote-control so I get notified when a task is done or need clarification, but most importantly whenever I have a new idea, I can just ask Claude to queue it up. Most of the time my hardware is the bottleneck, not the subscription quotas.

There are so many neat use cases like this one that I'm skeptical of the AI-is-a-dot-com-bubble naysayers. Not to mention that, unlike in 2000, technical-adjacent people can now get a reasonable approximation of their ideas running quickly.

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

#175

Post by troupo »

naiveter wrote: post #164
troupo wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> Is the high expense coming from cache misses?

Yup. They can't keep your workload in cache forever, or they would run out of cache for users.

> I wonder would starting new sessions and having to re-read the contexts and results anyway be any cheaper.

Yes, that's what they recommend

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

#176

Post by j45 »

hangrybear666 wrote: post #107
j45 wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Didn't imply or mention anything about working at a job in one's free time, but rather claude code continuing to work on whatever.

It could be for a personal project or hobby.

Having independently running processes from the computer you carry around offers benefits.

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

#177

Post by alex_suzuki »

bschwindHN wrote: post #142
hangrybear666 wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

raises hand

I too confess to writing code by hand. It… works for me?

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

#179

Post by vcf »

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.

Prohibitively expensive is all relative. Pre-Fable, I was getting fine on the 5x plan for 1-2 concurrent long-running tasks plus interactive work (I do a lot of coding for work, but it is not my full work day). I don’t think a cache miss every hour on Opus hurts that much, even at 500-600k context. It would be nice if they got /clear working on remote-control.

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

#180

Post by Terretta »

Havoc wrote: post #138

It's so strange to me that tech crowd uses macs for use cases that spend all their time idle or serve some light http request. It's a glorified API gateway...it could run on a medium sized potato Almost like an entire generation just grew up coding on macbooks as the obvious choice for coders and just can't conceptualize hardware outside of that walled garden

for local LLM, obvious choice:

idle = doesn't have to be H200 speeds

uses macs = local LLM can use all the ram, be smarter

as for hosted models, potato is tasty

Post reply on HN