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

I've used it for the following when I've had tokens to burn:

  - 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].

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Do you do software development? Is there any work left at the end of the day? Have it do that stuff.

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)

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