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?

People who can't figure out their power settings are shipping software. We're so fucked.

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.

"coders"

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.

This sounds like a form of addiction.

"Can’t you just disable sleep on close? " You really think they have technical competence for such?

dumbass who refuses to learn does dumbass shit that takes seconds to fix. sounds about right.

I guarantee this article was written in conjunction with the comms team at OpenAI. Just more propaganda to try to convince people that AI is popular and generate FOMO.

AI has important uses, but for capitalists its only use is to make them more money at your expense.

How do so many tech people not know about the power settings that can let the laptop run 100% even with the lid closed and on battery power?

Like, how stupid are they? Has AI really atrophied their tech skills that much?

Wow, that was quick to have vibe "coders" not understanding how a operating system works.

The 39-year-old head of product at Raven.AI is a [Claude Code and OpenAI Codex power user. He also has two daughters, ages 12 and 10, who love to ice skate. So, when he takes them to their weekly skating practices, he sits outside the rink and codes with AI.

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.

Sure pal, your work is more important than your kids!

USA makes the world more difficult by pushing people to work more hours and more hours and even more hours, that is turning to a normal thing, which affects the rest of the world bad. Yesterday was AI pushed all over the world, today is war going worldwide. God belss USA and it's capitalist heads!

What really worries me about this article is this very dystopian idea that you're supposed to be "working" 24/7, no breaks ever.
Even when you're out with your kids, why are you present in the moment instead of working? Open your laptop, go work.

Wasn't all the marketing abour the "AI Future" talking about getting things done faster?
When did that turn into "Work 24/7 so you don't waste your hourly token limit"? WTF?

This shit reads like an Onion article. Good god.

So many comments about the power settings thing, but this isn't about working effectively and efficiently.

You can take AI out of this article and it would be just as sad, but it wouldn't get the clicks.

This article is either helping push, or documenting the push, that if YOU are a higher tier of worker bee that wants to prove your superior worth to your bound legal entity, AND you want to virtue signal having your head on straight to all the lazy selfish people around you actually being present in the moment, then YOU need ShinyTechBroProduct!

Ohhh all the cool parents are into ShinyTechBroProduct! All the other lame asses who PaId AtTeNtiOn To tHeiR KiDs aren't going to be the next Elon Jobs now are they!

Figures they don't know how to keep their laptops awake while the lid is closed lmao

Can’t you just disable sleep on close? Fuckin noobs

They'd have to know how to use a computer to know that...

And if they knew how to use a computer, they wouldn't be using AI to do their job.

A big thing no one is talking about, is how each worker's goal here isn't to build a fully functioning thing, it's to make something "good enough" that it gets off your desk and is no longer your problem. It doesn't matter if the "creator" knows how it works or even if it works. Just enough to get a rubber stamp from your manager, then they move on to a new one.

Since most "AI coders" will just keep typing "try again" till it works, eventually they'll get something that "works", we won't fully realize the damage for a while

But pretty soon shit is going to start breaking all over and no one will know how to fix it besides typing into an AI "try again". No corp or government will pay humans to start over with something maintainable...

And this is the most boring way possible we get to War Hammer 40k

You're giving them too much credit. They're afraid their chatbot will suffocate if they close those lid all the way.

just ssh home for god sakes

Close the lid, buddy. You gave your only good ideas to a stranger and they made you obsolete.

Actual link to article: https://www.businessinsider.com/coders-keep-laptops-open-in-public-ai-agent-2026-5
Redirect links are tracking links and should be banned imo.

Just disable the lid switch in software.

I've always done this. I dont like it suspending when its closed.

This was one of the cringiest articles I have ever read.

There is no way this happened lmao.

I lost it at “sorry, I’m using Claude”.

Jesus, These people have no critical thinking skills.

I gotta hide this article. His punchable face on my feed is insufferable.

Imagine leaving skate practice and your father cannot stop his AI gooning to pay attention to you

Oh bro your laptop was open, I closed it so it wouldn’t eat up all your battery.

Can't you just run the agent remotely? 🤔

Tech guys too stupid to config lid closed settings

Tmux/screen foreign concepts

caffeinate -d

closes laptop lid