Comment by catoc
15 hours ago
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!
15 hours ago
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!
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 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
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.
> 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 an account manager. My clients will phone at almost any time, weekends included, if they feel there issue wasn't yet looked at by the on call dev.
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
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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.
The “debugging” for these type of issues is looking at some logs and http responses and being like “ah if we get this error it means they restarted their firewall again and took us off the whitelist. Email that guy Joe at the bank and hope he responds”. It’s not rocket science or the majority of my job… but someone’s needs to do it. We automate all the stuff we can.
If you got into the industry due to enjoying the typing of code the future is looking pretty bleak.
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An enormous amount of on-call debugging is just natural language reading of logs.
> Many Claude Code power users don’t really use IDEs anymore
This is something we of the HN bubble take for granted. Most of us know how to type quickly and use editors and use macros and program scripting languages and compose regexes.
The vast majority of programmers do not know those things. As such, AI speeds them up tremendously.
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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)
> 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)?
It launches these tasks in the background. It became really good at it a couple of months ago, now it sets monitors on timer (not something I instructed, so I assumed it’s part of the system prompt for this kind of tasks) and then just wait for the next prompt, for the background process to be done, or for a monitor to trigger a checkup.
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I've used it for the following when I've had tokens to burn:
[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt
Few cases I have found very useful myself
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.
They help folks on fixed rate plans consistently hit their usage limits which provides them the feeling of getting their money's worth.
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.
Pretty much doing everything that takes more time doing manually on computers
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.
i like using /remote-control to keep vibe dev running smoothly against my usage limits and deadlines
Running Claude code 24/7 on a code base on that “second Mac” so you can always continue after a usage limit reset, from your main device or from your phone?
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.
I think the main use case for AI bros is to setup a goofy looking dashboard, name it Jarvis to cosplay being Tony stark, and display stats for all the generated videos they're posting to social media.
(I wish I was joking)
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?
Running tests and optimize?
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Generating leads for new work, if you are a freelance. Automatically answering customer support emails, if you own a SaaS. Monitoring competitors' socials, websites, etc for new features you have to compete with. Monitoring updates on software you depend on for breaking change / deprecation announcements.
ask AI to help
Same here