You people are too far gone
You're being left behind.
How am I being left behind by not using AI? I have a fully functional brain that I can use to do anything AI can and better.
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
#122Earlier 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.
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
Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
#123This is the paranoia talking, but given that Claude is going to be doing its own thing, I would put this box in its own VLAN or behind deny-all firewall rules to protect against network escapes.
Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
#124Earlier 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.
That time is otherwise worthless, so yes?
I don't value my travel time at all, but it used to be wasted on travelling.
Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
#125Why a spare machine has to be exactly a mac ? For iMessage?
New macs share memory between the cpu and the GPU so the GPU gets a lot of ram for a low cost (relative to everything else available right now.)
Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
#126Earlier 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.
An enormous amount of on-call debugging is just natural language reading of logs.
Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
we don't have master AI that can create a great product out of a mediocre prompt.
but we do have sufficient AI to make a great product out of a great prompt.
garbage in -> garbage out hasn't gone anywhere.
so: much like to anyone that blindly complains that their compiler hates them : if you actually want help, provide information. If you just want to complain that the compiler is mean, scream at the sky.
plenty of people have figured out how to get this to work; more than enough to confirm that a straight // analogy is too simplistic to explain what we're working with.
Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
#128Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're being left behind.
How am I being left behind by not using AI? I have a fully functional brain that I can use to do anything AI can and better.
You can't do it faster, certainly. But if you used it to do all the things you're slow at, you get all of the above.
Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
#130Outside 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…
Nice to give Claude their own blue bubble iMessage. Can be done in a VM of course if you have the capacity, but old Apple hardware seems to accumulate for many.