Now I'm spinning up more Claude code sessions (5-10), each with often 1-3 subagents going, as well as using chrome with playwright of claude-in-chrome for debugging/QA/styling.
That combination has really been slowing down my computer lately. I get it, it's a lot of processes and a lot of chrome. I don't like the cloud coding agents cause I often want it to use my own cookies in my browser, or other secrets/setup I've got locally
Curious if anyone else has these issues, and what you're using. Obviously it'd be nice to upgrade to an m5 with 24 or 48gb but that's 4k AUD (or 3200 with trade-in)
inventor7777•1h ago
For all my daily use + Codex Desktop and some local AIs in Ollama/LM Studio (which power my Home Assistant Voice Assistants) I have an Mac Studio M4 Max with 48GB of RAM (Which I bought early last year IIRC)
It's a complete beast and runs GPT-OSS 20B at over 100 tok/sec. The GUI never slows down, and I run Sequoia still, so it is always smooth and polished. I've also never heard the fans.
I got mine for $2250 USD because I am eligible for the student discount. I got the base 512GB SSD because I store most stuff on external SSDs/HDDs anyway.
willsmith72•1h ago
Yeah I go back and forth using more or less sessions. Was always a fan of kanban, less WIP better, but some sessions are just slow so I end up starting new ones.
inventor7777•1h ago