Posted by ykev 6 hours ago
0: https://gist.github.com/smith153/04b4068b5a2d7b234f1c3d5992d...
sudo useradd agent
sudo su agent
It was also doing some kind of headless Chrome stuff in there. I don't know how that works, but it was taking screenshots iirc.
I did also set up VNC at some point but didn't find it worth using.
>If it makes a mess, I can dump and reinstall in seconds.
This is also true of a $3 VPS, where I found it very amusing to give my agent root. What's the worst that could happen ;)
I've been wanting to set up something exactly like this for my own use, but... You know, time is limited.
This is just enough scaffolding to have a little project for Monday morning!
Please help: I wánt to need this!
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 triages and says “all of the sudden you are getting time outs from this bank API your company partners with, this started an hour ago. It’s happening on ~15% of requests”. So you ping the guy at your company who does vendor relationships and go back to your weekend.
This is a non hypothetical example. Obviously it would be better if your job had a real on call rotation and more robust alerting and you wouldn’t be getting slack alerts on the weekend… but I take the approach this job affords me a lot of nice flexibility so it’s ok
But yeah it’s kinda a zone where most weekends there’s no problems so it’s not a huge priority… until it is
I've been watching "How it's made" on Hulu to fall asleep at night.
My sleepy mind is constantly blown away by how many things are made with human hands, despite the ability to automate.
- Fuzzing with the goal for it to apply domain-specific and source-informed knowledge to choose specific fuzzing approaches.
- More generally, any optimization problem that benefits from domain-specific or source informed knowledge.
- Running Microsoft's SkillOpt [0].
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)?
1/ Using GUI software. My agents are using headful Google Chrome and Figma. It helps a lot to have separate environment, which is not interfering my main machine.
2/ Running long processes (1h+), so I can leave main machine closed.
3/ Running intensive processes. I use Gemma, Whisper and Qwen, which could burn main machine CPU and resources.
Yes, surprisingly, this is something Google cannot do yet.
I don't value my travel time at all, but it used to be wasted on travelling.
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.
(I wish I was joking)
as one has
I'm using Qubes OS, where everything runs in VMs without GPU acceleration, and never experienced this.
I’d love to just have Claude use my machine as a sandbox host instead of having to run RC on each host session. (In case you are listening Boris ;) ).
In the meantime I have a janky master RC session that creates new tmux windows and Claude RC sessions for each new code trajectory that I want to run.
The other benefit here is you can drop down and use termux to use Code directly if you hit a RC bug, I found permissions UX to be a bit flaky in the iOS UI.
Running a helper from the terminal, making Claude work in a working directory, and then create a .commit file has been my workaround for this for a while now.
Imagine there's a better solution nowadays, but this allows me to use dispatch building on Vercel, so I can check it out from wherever, without too much pain.
But increasingly it seems like dispatch was slapped on top of cowork incrementally, when there was not an integrated and cohesive strategy across cowork between mobile/desktop/laptop. This is kind of what many of us get/got to learn in our 20's.
I haven’t set up dispatch yet. I wonder what a Mac gets me over this set up if I don’t need iMessage