How to (Almost) Fry Your AI Agent and Your Mac Mini: Six Hard Lessons

How to (Almost) Fry Your AI Agent (and Your Mac Mini)

TLDR: Running a 35B local model as a third agentic harness on a 16GB Mac Mini that already hosts two heavy cloud-agent harnesses and a dozen background daemons will bring the machine to its knees. This post is an honest catalog of six mistakes from building a real, production-ish personal AI agent stack, and what actually fixed them.

How to (Almost) Fry Your AI Agent (and Your Mac Mini)