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.

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

"coders"

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

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.

This sounds like a form of addiction.

When you lock your lid: Do nothing When on battery, turn off laptop after: Never

Hey chatGPT, can I close my laptop lid and not have it go to sleep?

ChatGPT: screw off loser.

Does anyone have an example of a real world, AI coded thing? I keep hearing about all these vibe coders, but I'm not seeing any tangible products.

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

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

Tech guys too stupid to config lid closed settings

Tmux/screen foreign concepts

This is just another ad for AI. Gotta keep that mindshare up!

caffeinate -d

closes laptop lid

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.

Oh... I guess you need 1 year on just a library and a linux machine and a next year with an added search engine before getting your AI coder driver's licence.

Jesus, These people have no critical thinking skills.

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.

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!

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”.

Brace yourselves for a windows update that will override the settings with giant bubble buttons on how to turn off sleep mode..

So relieved I'm fully Linux now

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