The extremely basic use case is that I'm doing something at work and it's not finished yet when I leave the office.
Or my laptop crashes, ugh.
Yes, if I could ssh into a random server it'd be fine. But I can't.
Not infinitely, but 6-12 hour long individual runs: complex analysis in enterprise across many data sources. Basically, long running investigations that touch databases, many files, apps via computer use, and so on.
I don’t really understand the infinitely running case, but I do have schedule agents to do things like open PRs when some events happen, or triage alerts every day
Something I've had Chat GPT do for a while was writing "Daily Presidential Briefings" for me. Basically non-clickbait, well-summarized, priority-ordered news.
one example: I have several cron jobs that monitor different projects and notify me via my claw agent in Telegram. Whenever it sends me a message, I can ask it to address the issue within the same conversation.