Erica

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And it can be really dangerous to do these things.

I honestly don't understand that part of it more than anything.

It's a brilliant marketing move for Apple, whoever did that.

But you can run it on a Raspberry Pi, which costs like 80 bucks.

And you can run it on any computer.

And I do think it is better to have it on an isolated computer.

So from that perspective, it's a good thing to have it on its own computer with nothing else on it.

But that's just one element of the security issue.

And but you don't need a Mac mini if you're using cloud agents because all the processing is being done somewhere else.

So that's why a Raspberry Pi that's a pretty low powered computer can do just as well with it.

And so people who are spending, you know, whatever it is, maybe a thousand bucks for a Mac mini, you know, they could have done it for 80 bucks and had just as good an experience.

you want to run local models which is what i was interested in doing because that's a lot safer um and also a lot cheaper um that's really difficult i think because it i think it does depend on having the big brain llm models like opus 4.5 or now they just came out with 4.6 and like those are the ones that are really to the point where you could think oh this thing is kind of like agi like it really seems to know what it's doing but you need that really advanced

Which means you can't really run those locally very easily because they're massive.

And most consumer hardware wouldn't be able to do those types of things.

And so most people are using those cloud agents.

And that has a couple of impacts.

Number one, like I said, it can be really expensive if you wake it up every 15 minutes, which I think might even be the default suggestion that they give you.

it can eat up all the tokens of whatever subscription you have pretty quickly.