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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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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

Solana/Ethereum

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

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I just redid my homelab/media server (switched from an old NUC I couldn’t figure out how to stop overheating even with some decent modification work, now using an hp elitedesk with an i5 processor that is handling my stack nicely). Thinking about setting up a vm on the base ubuntu install for isolation to run Claude in. May play with dispatch, may just put raw Claude code then use Moshi app on my iPhone and iPad.

I have a similar setup with Claude on an Ubuntu VM. It handles scheduled things that might otherwise be in a routine.

I haven’t set up dispatch yet. I wonder what a Mac gets me over this set up if I don’t need iMessage

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

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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 changed all smart speakers to retrofitted old radios with an amp and a pi. The hot word detection runs on the pi itself but whisper and LLM/task orchestrations goes over my local server with a 4080.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

None of these are things I want or need in the product I maintain with a team, there's really no point to any of this unless you run a vibe coded SaaS (?)

You want your team spending their time fixing these simple errors? The secret sauce is in the triage. We've adopted solutions alot like this, and now our team spends its time on much more meaningful work.

Why are the errors occurring, though? That's what boring analyse-and-fix addresses, through familiarity, recognition of patterns and "hang onnn..." moments.

It's like your AI agent is just plugging the leaks in the dyke each time, instead of fixing the architecture of the dam.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That makes sense - thanks. Do you use hooks for this?

I used to have some hooks for local notification, but lately I find that claude is pretty good at notifying through the app with remote control (but definitely not perfect)

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

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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.

I think you need to open your mind to the possibilities? For example: - scanning logs for errors and - opening issues which are then auto-triaged and - PRs are opened for them and auto-reviewed and - merged (and deployed). This workflow alone is immensely powerful, and takes alot of burden off the team.

A company at the scale to benefit from this almost certainly has some kind of development sandbox environment and/or periodic job runner that's integrated into its environment and maintained by a team, not random Mac Minis.

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

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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.

> 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)?

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

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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!

Do you do software development? Is there any work left at the end of the day? Have it do that stuff.

I always have to correct its hallucinations during the day. Why would I ever let it run unsupervised overnight?

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

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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.

I think you need to open your mind to the possibilities? For example: - scanning logs for errors and - opening issues which are then auto-triaged and - PRs are opened for them and auto-reviewed and - merged (and deployed). This workflow alone is immensely powerful, and takes alot of burden off the team.

> 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.

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

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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!

Letting it control a browser and searching for a pair of pants of a given size and length and color and style.

Yes, surprisingly, this is something Google cannot do yet.

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