Nine Mac Minis power 42-way concurrent macOS CI; a code agent setup burns just ~20B tokens/month
yangyi · x · 2026-08-30
A first-hand recap of a home rack built to solve the review bottleneck in AI automation: 3 Proxmox servers, 2 Synology NAS (21TB, running MinIO/Verdaccio/Portainer), and 9 Mac Minis — 8 forming a CI runner pool (five 16GB at 3 concurrent each, one 48GB M4 Pro at 9, two 64GB M4 Pros at 9 each), totaling 42 concurrent macOS CI lanes.
Even so, full checks on every MR still queue, prompting a split of the review structure: which tasks run full checks, which run only dependency-affected ones, and how to tier review standards. Only after these rules are set does Harness automation truly begin.
A notable data point: a code-agent workload burns just over 20B tokens/month; setups hitting hundreds of billions are mostly text/multimodal workloads — likely with Harnesses exploding context in loops. Burning that many tokens is itself an engineering feat.
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