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Running Claude Code on a remote machine via ssh. Due to still-unresolved feelings of how-much-of-this-work-is-really-mine when using AI tools, I’m trying to make it as obvious as possible when I use them, and give away as much of the output as possible. I also like what I get out of the tools, but I don’t trust the tools themselves. As Apple is beginning to allude to (or… perhaps outright states) with their Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS article, AI tools with unbounded access on end user devices are becoming a problem. And no, in-model guardrails (eg: prompts not to touch certain files) are not sufficient; the model can’t really constrain the model. So, other layers below — like in the OS — are needed to restrict access and maintain control and boundaries. I’ve taken a little bit different approach to this: a separate computer. I took an old computer, dropped a simple Ubuntu install on it, disabled the GUI, and I ssh into it to run Claude Code (or other AI tools) under tmux.…