[franze]

I am on the other side, I have given the complete control of my computer to Claude Code - Yolo Mode. Sudo. It just works. My servers run the same. I SSH into Claude Code there and let them do whatever work they need to do.

So my 2 cents. Use Claude Code. In Yolo mode. Use it. Learn with it.

Whenever I post something like this I get a lot of downvots. But well ... end of 2026 we will not use computer the way we use them now. Claude Code Feb 2025 was the first step, now Jan 2026 CoWork (Claude Code for everyone else) is here. It is just a much much more powerful way to use computers.

[vidarh]

> end of 2026 we will not use computer the way we use them now.

I think it will take much longer than that for most people, but I disagree with the timeline, not where we're headed.

I have a project now where the entirety of the project fall into these categories:

- A small server that is geared towards making it easy to navigate the reports the agents produce. This server is 100% written by Claude Code - I have not even looked at it, nor do I have any interest in looking at it as it's throwaway.

- Agent definitions.

- Scripts written by the agents for the agents, to automate away the parts where we (well, the agents mostly) have found a part of the task is mechanical enough to either take Claude out of the loop entirely, or produce a script that does the mechanical part interspersed with claude --print for smaller subtasks (and then systematically try to see if sonnet or haiku can handle the tasks). Eventually I may get to a point of starting to optimise it to use API's for smaller, faster models where they can handle the tasks well enough.

The goal is for an increasing proportion of the project to migrate from the second part (agent definitions) to the third part, and we do that in "production" workflows (these aren't user facing per se, but third parties do see the outputs).

That is, I started with a totally manual task I was carrying out anyway, defined agents to take over part of the process and produce intermediate reports, had it write the UI that lets me monitor the agents progress, then progressively I'd ask the agent after each step to turn any manual intervention into agents, commands, and skills, and to write tools to handle the mechanical functions we identified.

For each iteration, more stuff first went into the agent definitions, and then as I had less manual work to do, some of that time has gone into talking to the agent about which sub-tasks we can turn into scripts.

I see myself doing this more and more, and often "claude" is now the very first command I run when I start a new project whether it is code related or not.

[theshrike79]

Depending on your threat model, I'd lean more into building permanent tooling that's not dependent on an external AI API provider.

The more you can offload to deterministic tools (script), the easier it will be to move to local LLMs when the AI bubble bursts =)

[darkwater]

Claude Code and agents are the hot new hammer, and they are cool, I use CC and like it for many things, but currently they suffer from the "hot new hammer" hype so people tend to think everything is a nail the LLM can handle. But you still need a screwdriver for screws, even if you can hammer them in.

[TeMPOraL]

That "hot new hammer" hype is a good thing given general enough tool, and LLMs very much are that. We did the same with smartphones, the Internet, personal computers, and even electricity.

Some 150 years ago, humanity collectively decided to try and redo everything but with electricity. In some cases, it was a clear success - e.g. lights. It enabled further progress - see e.g. computers, MRI machines, etc. In other cases, it was a failure - see e.g. cars, which still rely on ICEs despite electric cars being first, because until recently batteries just were not there. And then, in many cases the adoption was partial - see e.g. power tools, which are usually electrical, but in professional / industrial use, there's lots of hydraulic/pressurized air powered variants.

All the above took people trying things out, "throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks". We're at this stage with LLMs now.

[jangxx]

Don't say "we" when talking about yourself.

[franze]

I already do.

And yes, it is a hypothesis about the future. Claude Code was just a first step. It will happen to the rest of computer use as well.