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

peschu

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? ;)

ronsor

Have they tried using remotely hosted servers instead?

tdeck

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

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

SwellJoe

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

jnakano89

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.

teitoklien

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 ?

blitzar

> ice rinks Is there an advanced ice water facial method that I don't have the appropriate grindset to comprehend, and does anyone know an ice rink that opens at 3:30am?

Imustaskforhelp

Just buy a cheap 7$/yr vps if they are so invested, or simply change it so that lid can be turned off without turning off the computer. I don't understand what they get with this chicanery of half open though :-/

dundunUp

The modern version of “I’m busy” is walking around with a half-open MacBook and an AI tab running.

realaknez

The irony that finding a solution is way easier than carrying the half-open laptop must really say something about modern day vibecoding.

kgwxd

Lots of comments on here about turning off the lid close behavior but, last time I tried that on Windows, a long time ago, because I was using vnc from my main desktop, the thing ran horribly slow because it did some other "power saving" junk on the video card. Is that still an issue? I currently have 3 laptops opened all the way flat, and standing in a folder rack (because they take up an awkward amount of space open the normal way), that i remote into for various jobs. Can I close them these days without a major hit to basic performance? Of course i'd have to open them to turn them on anyway, so that'd be annoying.

joezydeco

"I'm like, 'I got agents running,'" Jain said. "I've got to keep shipping software." Or...what?