In a similar fashion, Apple Podcasts app decided to download 120GB of podcasts for random reason and never deleted them. It even showed up as "System Data" and made me look for external drive solutions.
Use whatever you like but I don't think Podcast app users are rare by any stretch of the imagination.
I use my MacBook for a mix of dev work and music production and between docker, music libraries, update caches and the like it’s not weird for me to have to go for a fresh install once every year or two.
Once that gets filled up, it’s pretty much impossible to understand where the giant block of memory is.
I should not have to hack through /Libary files to regain data on a TB drive because Osx wanted to put 200gbs of crap there in an opaque manner and not give the user ANY direct way to regain their space.
You can enable "calculate all sizes" in Finder with Cmd+J. I think it only works in list view however.
du -hs ~/Library/Caches/*I downloaded several MacOS installers, not for the MacBook I use, but intending to use them to create a partitioned USB installer (they were for macOS versions that I could clearly not even use for my current MacBook). Then, after creating the USB, since I was short of space, I deleted the installers, including from the trash.
Weirdly, I did not reclaim any space; I wondered why. After scratching my head for a while, I asked an LLM, which directed me to check the system snapshots. I had previously disabled time machine backup and snapshots, and yet I saw these huge system snapshots containing the files I had deleted, and kicker was, there was no way to delete them!
Again I scratched my head for a while for a solution other than wiping the MacBook and re-installing MacOS, and then I had the idea to just restart. Lo and behold, the snapshots were gone after restarting. I was relieved, but also pretty pissed off at Apple.
Like, assuming they need the data and it's inconveniently large to fit into RAM, where/how should they store and access it if not the primary disk?
I also prompt warp/gemini cli to identify unnecessary cache and similar data and delete them
One would think that's a extremely common use case and it will only grow the more years iMessage exists. Just offload them to the cloud, charge me for it if you want but every other free message service that exists has no problem doing that.
Did you mean than accurate rather than and accurate? Having a more accurate issue description only sounds like a good thing to me
Imagine a user had a vague idea or something that is broken, then the LLM will choose to interpret his comment for what it thinks is the most likely actual underneath problem, without actually checking anything.
I’ve run into the issue trying to use Claude to instrument and analyze some code for performance. It would make claims like “around 500mb ram are being used in this allocation” without evidence.
> Filed via Claude Code
I assume part of it is true, but determining which part is true is the hard part. I’ve lost a lot of time chasing AI-written bug reports that were actually something else wrong with the user’s computer. I’m assuming the claims of “75% faster” and other numbers are just AI junk, but at least someone could verify if the 10GB VM exists.
So contrary to the github issue, my problem is that it's not enough space. So the fix is to navigate to ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/vm_bundles, and then ask Claude Code to upsize the disk to a sparse 60 GiB file, giving cowork much more space to work in while not immediately taking up 60 GiB.
Bigger picture, what this teaches me though, is that my knowledge is still useful in guiding the AI to be able to do things, so I'm not obsolete yet!
Yea, that's a receipt for problems.
AI really give much user ability to develop a completed product, but the quality is decreasing. Professional developers will be in demand when the products/features become popular.
First batch of users of new products need to take more responsibility to test the product like a rats in lab
https://x.com/backnotprop/status/2028293637373841759
This was tweeted last night as a meme and hit the front page before it was flagged, but I'm actually serious and in favor of slop. VHS over Betamax, honestly, what's best and most convenient for us? We're going to learn this a lot with AI.
Try this if you have claude code -- ls -a your home dir and see all the garbage claude creates.
I also noticed this 10GB VM from CoWork. And was also surprised at just how much space various things seem to use for no particular reason. There doesn't seem to be any sort of cleanup process in most apps that actually slims down their storage, judging by all the cruft.
Even Xcode. The command line tools installs and keeps around SDKs for a bunch of different OS's, even though I haven't launched Xcode in months. Or it keeps a copy of the iOS simulator even though I haven't launched one in over a year.
Not a new problem, unfortunately. DevCleaner is commonly used to keep it under control: https://github.com/vashpan/xcode-dev-cleaner
i kept telling myself this BUT NEVER ELECTRON AGAIN.
this is usual reason for divorce /s
Pondering... Noodling... Some other nonsense...
https://developer.hashicorp.com/vagrant is still a thing.
The market for Cowork is normals, getting to tap into a executive assistant who can code. Pros are running their consumer "claws" on a separate Mac Mini. Normals aren't going to do that, and offices aren't going to provision two machines to everyone.
The VM is an obvious answer for this early stage of scaled-up research into collaborative computing.
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