Yegge Bought a $25K 512GB Mac Studio to Run Claude Agents
Steve_Yegge · x · 2026-11-13
Steve Yegge replied that he paid $25k on eBay for a 512GB Mac Studio (M4 Ultra), bought from an Ivy League student selling it to cover tuition; the kid had been running Claude on it.
He notes that once his agents spawn about 1.2B processes, macOS kicks him out of all auth systems — the team calls it "The Bad Thing" — because his agents wrote Wheelhouse in shell script. He wishes he had five M3 Ultras.
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