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Apple Silicon
2026
The Machine I Can't Turn Off
A four-year-old Mac Studio runs a night shift of local agents - launchd as the runtime, open-weight models as the brains, git as the memory. What I've learned building it, and the economics thesis I'm testing.
Why personal AI belongs on hardware you already own
Apple just put two hardware engineers at the top of the company. The cloud labs are losing money on their best customers. From inside a hybrid practice, here's what the local share looks like and why it's growing.
Running real models locally on a Mac Studio that isn't new anymore
How I run a multimodal LLM on four-year-old hardware to read a family archive without sending anything to the cloud.