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Anthropic's Claude AI Can Now Use Your Mac While You're Away

dumiku said:
Quiet a few,
The primary driver for smartphones use in my surroundings is social media not AI and those who do use AI are blogger and the likes
And there is a growing concern about social media use that quiet a few people are leaving and other not even thinking about creating an account.

I understand that going without a smartphone nowadays is unlikely as you need to stay in touch with family, co-workers and direct phone calls are expensive especially for country to country calls.
But most people do not run AI on their phones except for those in social media app like Whatsapp and Facebook so, less prone to be used to run algorithms unless it is forced.
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I agree to some extend.
But that doesn't mean not you educate in AI agent usage. At least you know what you're confronted with in the world. Because even if you exclude AI agents form your own usage, you'll have to face it in most interactions with official and entertainment purposes.

Phones will be come an AI agent. Smartphones with apps are only a declining period to get there.
Digital natives of today will become the dinosaur of the native AI agent users of tomorrow.
 
spazzcat said:
My company's CEO said it best the only people getting replaced by AI are people not using AI.
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Well, your CEO's not very smart then if they're oversimplifying their messaging to their employees to that degree.

Nevertheless, the next lot of employees to get replaced will be the bunch that were using AI, but weren't carefully validating what it did (your CEO would be in that group. Don't worry. It happens all the time)

The end-game of all this is a legal damage-control and re-hiring mess (if the shareholders don't sue the board out of existance)
 
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chrono1081 said:
Our company tried a similar thing until the AI trials reached a conclusion and found it’s slowing down all the software devs. Now we’re not using it (thankfully!)
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That's common.

It reminds me of self-driving cars. A great idea, that's not ready for prime time. Everyone gets caught up in the hype and doesn't bother to check they're being lied to. TBH, it's hard for a non-expert in any field to verify they're not being lied to. Greed thrives on ignorance.
 
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Arran said:
Well, your CEO's not very smart then if they're oversimplifying their messaging to their employees to that degree.

Nevertheless, the next lot of employees to get replaced will be the bunch that were using AI, but weren't carefully validating what it did (your CEO would be in that group. Don't worry. It happens all the time)

The end-game of all this is a legal damage-control and re-hiring mess (if the shareholders don't sue the board out of existance)
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Well you are wrong, we are client focused company and are investing a lot in AI solutions for our clients and we are hiring.
 
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spazzcat said:
Well you are wrong, we are client focused comaany and are investing a lot in AI solutions for our clients and are hiring.
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Good luck.

If you're doing it carefully and purposefully you'll be fine. Just don't get caught up in the hubris.
 
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Arran said:
Right now, with what I'm seeing. I'd bet on the lawyers 😉
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Law follows structured knowledge and patterns combined by historic law knowledge what makes it especially prime to be replaced by AI. Your lawyers will defiantly be replaced by AI agents. 😉
 
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Joe Bogger said:
Law follows structured knowledge and patterns combined by historic law knowledge what makes it especially prime to be replaced by AI. Your lawyers will defiantly be replaced by AI agents. 😉
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Seriously. I wouldn't invest in individual lawyers.

Law practices, yes.
 
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spazzcat said:
Well you are wrong, we are client focused company and are investing a lot in AI solutions for our clients and we are hiring.
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You should post your company name so people can avoid applying for jobs there. Sounds like a nightmare. AI has its uses, but your CEO doesn't seem to realize it has limits and is still a very immature technology.
 
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spazzcat said:
My company's CEO said it best the only people getting replaced by AI are people not using AI.
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So the janitorial staff is getting replaced by AI? I'll WFH until they return, thanks.

So-call smart people are so stupid. Reminds me of the Golgafrincham's mistake of shipping off all the telephone sanitizers.
 
Joe Bogger said:
I agree to some extend.
But that doesn't mean not you educate in AI agent usage. At least you know what you're confronted with in the world. Because even if you exclude AI agents form your own usage, you'll have to face it in most interactions with official and entertainment purposes.

Phones will be come an AI agent. Smartphones with apps are only a declining period to get there.
Digital natives of today will become the dinosaur of the native AI agent users of tomorrow.
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I agree and that is the problem most people do not really know how AI agent work but, they just use it as to follow the trend. I personally educate my surroundings about the current state of AI and AI agent, not using a smartphone is just to avoid the social media dilemma not really to shield myself from AI since I have computer as my main digital device and do use AI for small tasks.

What I can not do is to give complete autonomy of devices however this will be forced on us at some point and this is the time to either prevent or delay that as much as we can (using tactic to force us, we should adopt it when we ready) those who eager to join the ship should do so as for for official interactions such as being force by corporations, yeah that for those working for them corporates pushing the AI agenda.

The issue or one of the issues here is safety not usability, I may want to use it but, is it safe to use?
 
I've been running a version of this setup for about a week already using Claude Code, Desktop Commander (MCP server for file/terminal access), and shell scripts that dispatch sprint tasks to separate Terminal windows.

Last weekend I had 17 parallel Claude Code sprints running overnight on a Mac Studio — vault audits, site deploys, app builds — while monitoring from my phone via `claude rc`. It works, but it's held together with `caffeinate` and shell scripts.

The hard lesson the blog post glosses over: dispatch is easy, verification is hard. My dispatcher moved scripts to a "done" folder when the process exited, but didn't check whether work actually committed and pushed. About half the sprints failed silently. Had to do a full git audit across every repo to figure out what actually shipped vs. what just ran and died.

The two things I'm most interested in from this update:

1. Dispatch from the phone as a first-class feature instead of my duct-tape `claude rc` setup
2. Computer use as an automatic fallback when Claude doesn't have an MCP connector for something — right now those tasks just fail

If their verification layer is better than what I built by hand, I'll happily retire the shell scripts. Going to test it today with a real task and see if it reports completion honestly or has the same silent-failure problem.

For anyone getting started: the MCP ecosystem is the real unlock. Desktop Commander + Claude in Chrome + a few targeted servers gives you most of what this article describes, and it's been available for months.
 
dabirdwell said:
I've been running a version of this setup for about a week already using Claude Code, Desktop Commander (MCP server for file/terminal access), and shell scripts that dispatch sprint tasks to separate Terminal windows.
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Damn, I’d love to be able to do all of this, but I just don’t understand how to configure an MCP server and how to use it. I don’t know how to code and it pisses me of that there’s not a regular GUI to do this… maybe now there is?
 
Septercius said:
You should post your company name so people can avoid applying for jobs there. Sounds like a nightmare. AI has its uses, but your CEO doesn't seem to realize it has limits and is still a very immature technology.
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Some companies lead, some follow, some don't adapt and change with the times and go away...
 
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boswald said:
She wouldn't know how to do it anyway, so her stupidity is a blessing in that regard!
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Or she would get it wrong when you're grumpy at the cable company and say "We should juke nuke 'em" and Siri says "Missiles are in flight" 😁 🚀
 
MacRumors said:
Anthropic are out with yet another update to Claude AI: the company's Claude Code and Cowork tools can now remotely control your Mac on your behalf.
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Back in the day, for remote control, I used Farallon Computing’s Timbuktu (Pro) software to connect from home to the Mac lab I ran at the U., early 90’s. Very cool and useful at the time. I remember the grins when referring to it while the second version was current … Timbuktu two 😊
 
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