RIP Caffeine: Remote Access Now Keeps Your PC Awake for AI Agents
tristanbob · x · 2026-10-24
A nostalgic tech joke: before AI, people had to install a utility called Caffeine just to keep their computers from sleeping. The attached screenshot shows Windows now ships a built-in "Keep this PC awake" toggle under its remote-control Connections settings, with an iPhone (iOS 26.5.2) connected — because AI agents need your PC reachable at all times, anti-sleep is now an OS feature.
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