Patriola's Guide to Claude: SSH to GPU: Offload the Heavy Work to Better Hardware

Your laptop isn't the limit — it's just where you start. This book shows how to extend your Claude workflow to a second machine: run sessions remotely so your laptop stays cool, hand GPU-intensive jobs to hardware that can handle them, and use SSH + Claude to build things for other people on their own machines. Every pattern is drawn from a production setup that runs voice training, overnight batch jobs, and remote builds on demand.

The setup is practical and unglamorous: key-based SSH auth, Claude CLI installed on the remote, rsync to move files, tmux to keep sessions alive after you disconnect. The architecture is simple — laptop describes the work, remote executes it, results come back — and once it's running you rarely think about it. You give the heavy job to the machine that can handle it and come back when it's done.

Chapter by chapter: set up the SSH connection and verify it holds; install and authenticate Claude on the remote; move files reliably and keep sessions alive overnight; hand GPU workloads to the hardware that was built for them; use the same pattern to build things for someone else on their own machine; then run the whole system in one complete session from start to finish. Every chapter adds one layer. The reader can stop after any of them and have something working.