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?
this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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Stupid enough to do AI slop, stupid enough to not know how to disable the lid actions
Just disable the lid switch in software.
I've always done this. I dont like it suspending when its closed.
Yeah, I think I learned to do this with my first laptop within the first hour of using it.
I mean honestly if you asked any AI, with relevant OS info, first thing it would tell you is how to configure your laptop to suppress lid off action.
"I think people think I'm whatever the equivalent of an iPad kid is for a middle-aged woman," one AI user said."
They don't think it bro they fuckin know it.
Can't you just run the agent remotely? 🤔
They would have to know something about technology
dumbass who refuses to learn does dumbass shit that takes seconds to fix. sounds about right.
"coders"
'AI coders' specifically.
spits on the ground
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.
I don't know, it has the opposite effect, IMO.
It just makes them seem obnoxious, since the example they chose was a parent who was distracted with the computer open in the changing room while they were supposed to be helping their children with their skates, and literally mentions how the other parents have to navigate around the thing.
You'd be more inclined to think that they're a computer addict who can't put the the thing down for even a moment.
On top of that, the video is basically a recipe to drop the laptop and have to shatter into fine powder, if you're holding it by the corner like that.
That is 100% the vibe I got from this article as well. They're trying to get this in the zeitgeist.
Wow, that was quick to have vibe "coders" not understanding how a operating system works.
Skill issue
To be fair, often times coders are horrible system admins. Heck Torvalds famously runs Fedora because he found installing Debian too confusing.
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.
You are expecting the people who rely this heavily on AI to know how to actually use a computer?
The story here isn't actually about the laptops, it's about the people addicted to the AI use.
If the heat vents are above the keyboard the heat will go directly on the screen. I had a laptop screen stop working due to this.
Seems like an incredibly stupid design that is easily remedied.
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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.
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He's a product head at an AI company, as per the article. He is a boss.
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Fuckin noobs
Lol I mean... yeah, they're vibe coding.
caffeinate -d
closes laptop lid
It's not running a local model anyway, why would you need to run anything local. If you're that careless, just deploy EC2 with headless claude and whatnot, and let it ~~drop your production database~~ do it's thing.
It’s a dangerous game to play. You want it when you need it, then you lose that terminal window under 30 others and wonder why your battery is always dead.
Hey, claud. Don't let the computer go to sleep when I close the lid
Closes laptop lid
Hahaha
This is just another ad for AI. Gotta keep that mindshare up!
Looks like anti-ad to me. Wonder how much these guys got paid to be clowned around like that for the entire internet to see.
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This sounds like a form of addiction.
It is. I don't know if you do any development or simply write code as a hobby but you get a sort of dopamine hit when something you're working on actually works. like a bug or something that's been dogging you for days and suddenly you figure it out. it feels good. I can't remember the quote but Linus Torvald said something similar. it's a good feeling.
Now imagine you get that constantly, consistently, again and again because you strictly use an AI agent. that's what these tech bros are getting. The problem is unlike actual devs they're getting that hit because it essentially "works on my machine" as really that's all the AI turns out. Something that surface level functions. So they're addicted to it. "oh man that was so fast and easy, lets build something else!" over and over again.
The problem then becomes they'll run out of ideas or things to build and will naturally have to start trying to maintain what the AI built utilizing the same AI. Annnnnd if you've had any experience with these agents you know "that's where the fun starts" those dopamine hits are going to vanish very quickly. Now these people are "chasing the dragon" so to speak. AI doesn't know it was the one that built the thing. I've seen it first hand with my clients vibe coders when I've asked them to go back into something that was built and have the AI start fixing bugs that I've found in my review. the vibe coder panics, it doesn't understand what the agent is telling them, the agent believes the vibe coder built this thing. suddenly it's not fun anymore. suddenly it's not churning out semi-working results. suddenly things are breaking.
This is the one aspect NONE of these companies or tech bros or vibe coders like to talk about it. Haven't you wondered why you rarely read stories of them sending their AI agents back into the thing its built to scale it or fix something? it never turns out well.
So it is an addiction. And they're all collectively chasing the dragon. But eventually they stop getting their hits and will crash out.
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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
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Everything about this article is annoying
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