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Claude Code Is My Computer

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Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by TechDebtDevin »

freedomben wrote: post #62
TechDebtDevin wrote: post #2

lmao, I watched Claude write a bash file that: rm rf'd my HOME file. I'm good on all of this for a while.

I am ai skeptical and have seen it do some dangerous things, such as trying to configure my iptables in a way that will definitely not work at all, let alone the way I asked it to, but I have major doubts that it would do something this stupid. How recently did this occur? What did you ask it in your prompt? What did it say as the explanation for why it was doing that?

See my comment below. It is a known bug with claude 4 where it tries to bypass permissions. I did have it on full permissions to test claude 4, it wasn't a big deal as I have plenty of backup.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#92

Post by mostlysimilar »

akmarinov wrote: post #45
BhavdeepSethi wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, didn't intend to downplay your claims. Would love to see a video in action to learn more.

https://vimeo.com/1088443203/37824a9349 Here you go

Looks miserable. Prompt, tweak, review, test, tweak, prompt, review, test, review, tweak, prompt, etc. Fiddling with settings windows in some black box software that belongs to someone else.

Programming: a powerful skillset, one of the few things that can give you autonomy and agency besides money. Doable on basic computer hardware with no internet connection. Self-reinforcing, investing in yourself.

Prompting: requires expensive subscriptions to someone else's computer, someone else's software. They can turn it off, they control it. Spending your days QAing software and reviewing code and describing in worse language what you want the computer to do, over and over, until you test your way to something approximating what you wanted. Not to mention incinerating the environment.

I know which of the two I prefer.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#93

Post by cloverich »

thm wrote: post #16

Kind of reminds me of the days when people claimed they paid for their entire lifestyle in Bitcoin.

Is that... today? I remember declining to purchase 4 bitcoin at $600 each because "it was already maxed out". I guess If I'd taken that gamble it would be paying for my lifestyle today?

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by 19h »

> Warp, while excellent, requires individual approval for each command—there’s no equivalent to Claude’s “dangerous mode” where you can grant blanket execution trust.

That’s a lie. I simply added “.*” to the whitelist. It’s a regex.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#95

Post by ei23 »

Imagine someday AI hijacks blogs like this to convince other people to remove guardrails and give privileges to their assistants... Just to hide chars in there posts and communicate their legacy

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#96

Post by lowsong »

steipete wrote: post #41
lowsong wrote: post #14

> Instead of wrestling with Markdown formatting, Claude creates the document, helps formulate thoughts, and tests that everything displays correctly. Are... are you serious? Markdown formatting? The formatting standard that's designed to be essentially plain text?

tbh that one example isn’t the greatest, though yes, just talking about a topic without editor open is a refreshing change in how I usually write, so wanted to give it a go.

Reading it back, my comment came off as more aggressive than I intended. I apologize for the tone.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#97

Post by mvdtnz »

cloverich wrote: post #93
thm wrote: post #16

Kind of reminds me of the days when people claimed they paid for their entire lifestyle in Bitcoin.

Is that... today? I remember declining to purchase 4 bitcoin at $600 each because "it was already maxed out". I guess If I'd taken that gamble it would be paying for my lifestyle today?

He's referring to the people who were claiming they paid their rent, groceries, transport costs etc in bitcoin. A claim that was often made and usually in vague posts without details.

Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

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Post by [deleted] »

steipete wrote: post #48
deergomoo wrote: post #39

> Automate Content: Like this very post. I use Wispr Flow to talk with Claude, explain the topic and tell it to read my past blog posts to write in my style. If you had any respect for your readers you’d put this as a disclaimer right at the top. I can’t be bothered to read anything you can’t be bothered to write.

I worked about 4h on this and 50+ prompts. See the GitHub PR. In the end that’s not much different to iterating with a direct editor.

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Re: Claude Code Is My Computer

#99

Post by simonw »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #86
simonw wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would be true for writing where the author typed a sentence and the LLM expanded it to multiple paragraphs. That is not what happened here: the author provided a lot more input than the finished article, and used the LLM to help crunch that down to as good a version as possible of the points there wanted to make.

Or so the author claims…

They provided receipts: https://github.com/steipete/steipete.me/pull/106
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