The latest articles on DEV Community by Erik Nielsen (@sorkila). https://dev.to/sorkila https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3837074%2F1675f281-1325-4812-bac6-db72b0c182c0.jpeg https://dev.to/sorkila en Erik Nielsen Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:37:16 +0000 https://dev.to/sorkila/i-built-tesla-dog-mode-for-macos-because-my-ai-agents-kept-dying-41hg https://dev.to/sorkila/i-built-tesla-dog-mode-for-macos-because-my-ai-agents-kept-dying-41hg <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fvsvuzopewczkuqlguzdw.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fvsvuzopewczkuqlguzdw.png" alt=" " width="800" height="660"></a></p> <p>You leave your desk. Your AI agents are mid-task. You have three options.</p> <ol> <li><p>Close the lid. Mac sleeps. Agents die.</p></li> <li><p>Lock the screen. Mac sleeps. Agents die.</p></li> <li><p>Leave it open and unlocked. Hope for the best.</p></li> </ol> <p>Yes, don’t-go-to-sleep-apps are around. They do not stop someone from walking up to your machine and… doing stuff. </p> <p>So I built a little tool for that, link below!</p> <p>One custom hotkey. Screen goes dark. All input blocked. Your agents keep working. Hotkey or Touch ID to get back in. Tesla’s Dog Mode, but for your Mac.</p> <p>Free and open source. Fork it, improve it, stick it in a stew. 🥔</p> <p>No accounts. No analytics. No data leaves your machine.</p> <p>Gotten far more stars on GitHub than I ever could have imagined, being my first open source project, than basically being one of my first projects ever. I've been a designer for 20 years, but I'm trying to get into actually building stuff now.</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/sorkila/lockpaw" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/sorkila/lockpaw</a></p> <p><a href="https://getlockpaw.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://getlockpaw.com</a></p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F7vja8y7zxtoodi77qqv2.gif" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F7vja8y7zxtoodi77qqv2.gif" alt=" " width="760" height="494"></a></p> <p>Happy to answer questions or have discussions around it. </p> showdev opensource swift macos