How to Almost Fry Your AI Agent (and Your Mac Mini)
How to (Almost) Fry Your AI Agent (and Your Mac Mini)A field report on the local-LLM experiment that almost cooked my Mac, plus a few other recent mistakes that taught me more than the wins did.Pawel JozefiakApr 28, 2026844ShareThis is a different kind of post. If I described every one of them, my blog would be 90% mistakes and 10% things that actually worked. So I pick the ones that might help someone else avoid the same wall, or at least find a more interesting wall of their own.Quick note before we start.
- ▪How to (Almost) Fry Your AI Agent (and Your Mac Mini)A field report on the local-LLM experiment that almost cooked my Mac, plus a few other recent mistakes that taught me more than the wins did.Pawel JozefiakApr 28, 2026844ShareThis is a di
- ▪If I described every one of them, my blog would be 90% mistakes and 10% things that actually worked.
- ▪So I pick the ones that might help someone else avoid the same wall, or at least find a more interesting wall of their own.Quick note before we start.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (AI / LLM) |
| Canonical URL | https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/almost-fried-ai-agent-mac-mini-mistakes-2026 |
| Publication time | Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:07:40 +0000 |
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How to (Almost) Fry Your AI Agent (and Your Mac Mini)A field report on the local-LLM experiment that almost cooked my Mac, plus a few other recent mistakes that taught me more than the wins did.Pawel JozefiakApr 28, 2026844ShareThis is a different kind of post. I try to be transparent about my mistakes. If I described every one of them, my blog would be 90% mistakes and 10% things that actually worked. So I pick the ones that might help someone else avoid the same wall, or at least find a more interesting wall of their own.Quick note before we start. I share 100% of what I do here, the wins and the failures, and a free subscription is the only thing you ever need to get all of it.
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