Running 100-200 agents daily: disk space is now the bottleneck, not compute
vincent_koc · x · 2026-09-12
Vincent Koc describes how his team's agentic engineering bottlenecks have evolved: first tokens, then compute, and now disk space — with electricity possibly next.
- The team runs 100-200 agents per day, but scaling further is hard without enough scratch space.
- Even hosting providers like Hetzner require manual requests for additional disk quota.
- Workarounds include using APFS virtual clones for pnpm packages so dependencies aren't fully copied into every worktree; however, agents tend to write to /tmp and random folders, making them hard to constrain.
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