Can’t you just disable sleep on close? Fuckin noobs
Updated with correct link
It’s easy to lose track of time with these tools, he told Business Insider. Soon enough, the girls’ practice has ended, and the parents flood into the changing room. He joins them — with his laptop ajar, so that the AI agent can keep running.
“I have to put it up on a shelf,” he said. “I’m untying my girls’ skates while looking back like: Is it done?”
I just feel bad for these poor kids. You can’t leave your goddamn Claude at home while you take your kids to the rink?
When your boss ranks you based on the number of tokens you burn, there’s no choice.
Ohoho, I know exactly how to burn a silly amount of tokens if I want to, which is why that metric is absolutely garbage - arguably worse than ranking developer performance by SLOC committed.
If your metric is usage, it is incredibly easy to game, just send agents on wild goose chases all day long and never accept the results.
Part of the scoring at my company is how many generated lines of code you accept.
Going back to the beginning of the year, I think I’m up to 6
Have it write all of your logging code for you, it may be inaccurate but it is the least damaging place to take the hit as you can just manually search in the source code for where the print was from. They always do something stupid and non uniform making most statements traceable indirectly.
This makes my ops guys cry.
If you fully inform them on the situation, they will be cool with it. We are all in this shit together, well until everything falls apart. Add a [<linenumber>] to the prefix on each statement, who the fuck cares. It was the LLM that did it, not you and you were forced to use it.
Still too much effort.
Automate a script to send AI agents on goose chases for you.
It’s not about effort as much as it is about keeping your job, while not injecting chaos into a code base.
I just don’t imagine any company actually using tokens as a metric
Tmux/screen foreign concepts
I remember being a young intern and a senior dev taught me about screen. It was cool and I immediately forgot how to use it.
Every time I use screen I forget how it works. Doesn’t matter if it was an hour ago I forgot either how to detach, or how to reattach.
I’ve been using byobu, which is a wrapper. No idea how actual screen or tmux work, but in byobu it’s just F2 for a new screen, F3 for previous, F4 for next, ^A, D to disconnect. And ^A, & to kill a screen. Those are the only commands I’ve ever needed.
I should probably learn how to actually split a terminal, but I’ve never been in a situation that I couldn’t just move the terminal emulator window.
Utterly pointless thread. Drivel. Change your power settings so that you can close the screen and have the machine “do nothing”.
Is this the level of content that is deemed worthy these days? Literally a non-story.
The story here isn’t actually about the laptops, it’s about the people addicted to the AI use.
Can’t you just disable sleep on close?
Most modern laptops have their air intake in the keyboard, which would cause them to overheat on a matter of minutes.Edit: I may have been confidently incorrect here. I know I’ve seen this done before, but I guess it’s not common like I thought
Decent ones dropped this practice a while ago. Some pull in the sides, some crappy ones use the bottom. My coworker actually got much better performance out of his dell by closing the lid and flipping it over. With it positioned normally it would overheat and throttle the cpu.
The vast majority take in from the bottom and blow out the hinge. That’s how you can fit the larger blower fans.
Right, Those are the terrible ones. Put it on your lap (which, let’s be honest, is basically the whole point) or a slightly soft surface and it just gets starved of air.
That’s why they stopped calling them “laptops” for a while, and instead “notebooks”.
But I actually just went and checked Dell, HP, and Lenovo and they do call them laptops again.
Anyone with half a working brain in computer tech would know that, if you really need something to be kept on, but checked regularly, it becomes a fucking server that you connect to using different equipment. But that’s too high tech for vibe-whatevers.
“I think people think I’m whatever the equivalent of an iPad kid is for a middle-aged woman,” one AI user said.
Ackshually, we think you’re an absolute fucking idiot.
Also - ffs, they can’t even disable sleep in system settings???
This sounds like a form of addiction.
