AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, ice rinks

blitzar•6 minutes ago

> ice rinks

Is there an advanced ice water facial method that I don't have the appropriate grindset to comprehend?

jnakano89•about 2 hours ago

Engineers solving "my agent stops when I close my lid" by physically holding the lid open is the funniest possible local optimum. Amphetamine app fixes the lid problem. Claude's /remote-control command also helps. The two together cost zero dollars and one minute of setup.

gofreddygo•26 minutes ago

The article explicitly says "AI coders". Not engineers. Not hackers. Not a mere accident I suppose.

teitoklien•about 1 hour ago

I literally have a custom built command

lid-toggle on lid-toggle off lid-toggle toggle

that allows me to switch the behaviour for laptop lid close , to behave the way i want it to,

So i can close my laptop, keep it in my bag, with my headphones on and talk to claude code while its coding stuff , albeit it runs a bit warm inside my bag, but it works just fine.

I run a custom setup on linux to make it all happen

Why would someone risk breaking their laptop by keeping it half open like this , instead of just quickly building a toggle to change the suspend on lid close behaviour ?

deadfoxygrandpa•44 minutes ago

dude you can stop using the computer sometimes. its gonna be ok. take a break.

peschu•about 3 hours ago

I guess these people are not coders at all. Maybe they should ask claude to temporarily change the „lid close action“ in the power settings? ;)

tdeck•about 2 hours ago

I immediately thought of SSH but you're right. That's far too complicated for the next crop of AI synergy experts.

xingped•about 2 hours ago

You joke, but even 8-9yrs ago, I had at least one new junior join my team who couldn't even tell or fathom the difference between whether they were on their own laptop or on the server when using the terminal. It was a constant problem where they were trying to run commands on the wrong computer.

I don't have much hope anything has improved since then.

globular-toast•about 2 hours ago

You don't need to be a "coder", just a vaguely competent computer user. It's really sad you've got people who just don't feel in control of their computers at all and would resort to not closing the lid.

jaapz•26 minutes ago

Or they just dont want to spend time figuring out how to do that because they are busy with something else

Naah, they are probably dumb as hell!

SwellJoe•about 2 hours ago

I guess they never asked Claude to explain tmux to them.

ronsor•about 2 hours ago

Have they tried using remotely hosted servers instead?

lifestyleguru•about 2 hours ago

There is no cloud it's just someone else's computer. Some else will have to keep the lid open.

kevmo314•38 minutes ago

You can keep my computer's lid open for the low price of $25/mo

lifestyleguru•11 minutes ago

I'll need access to your webcam. I don't really believe in "The Cloud".

tdeck•about 2 hours ago

I'm confused, if AI told are making these people more efficient, why do they need to use them to do "work" every waking moment?

momo26•about 2 hours ago

The next version of MacOS should have a choice to "keep alive while the screen is closed" lol

johng•about 2 hours ago

Aren't there a few utilities for that, like caffeinate, etc?

AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, ice rinks

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