AI Agents Running Nonstop? Tech Pros Carry Half-Open Laptops Everywhere As A Trend

Amid the AI agent boom, many tech professionals carry half-open laptops everywhere to keep their coding tasks running—closing the laptop would lose progress. For example, Jeff Chen, product lead at Raven.AI, uses Claude Code while his daughters have ice-skating training; he keeps his laptop half-open even when helping them take off skates. Alison Kaiser, partner at Golden Ventures, held her open laptop until she sat down on a plane.

This behavior has become an internet meme, with OpenAI even posting a joking video on TikTok. From high school hallways to airport offices, people keep laptops half-open in various ways (like taco-shaped or with a small gap). Though a bit awkward, peers understand—no one wants to lose their AI task progress.