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Your Laptop Is a Window, Not the Engine

Your Laptop Is a Window, Not the Engine

Parsa Khazaeepoul

by Parsa Khazaeepoul

Published May 18, 2026

You are running four parallel Claude sessions. Your fan sounds like a helicopter. Battery is at 12%. The Slack call you are on starts dropping frames.

AI agents are compute-hungry. Your laptop should not be the one feeding them.

the fix

The remote daemon runs your agents on a separate machine: a home server, a cloud box, a beefy workstation under your desk. Pane streams the session back to your screen over a secure tunnel. Your laptop renders text. That is it.

setup from settings

Install Pane on the machine that should run your agents. Open Settings > Remote Pane on that host, set it up, and copy the connection code. Paste the same code into your laptop's Pane app or the browser app at runpane.com/app.

Settings > Remote Pane → Set Up This Machine

Sessions on that host show up alongside local ones. Same UI, same keyboard shortcuts. You will not notice the difference until you check your battery.

self-hosted, not SaaS

Run the daemon on hardware you own. A mini PC, an old tower, a rack server. Your code stays on your network. Or spin up a cloud instance; any provider, any region. No subscriptions. No data leaving your control.

try it now

Available today. Update Pane and look for Remote Pane in Settings. Read the docs.