Jared

What's all the excitement about?

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Yes, but can it blend?

Okay, okay, where do all the Mac minis enter the story?

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Apple Silicon's unified memory architecture is exceptionally efficient for AI workloads.

Instead of the CPU and GPU communicating over a slower connection, the memory sits directly on the chip package.

This means the full memory bandwidth is instantly available to AI models, making local inference significantly faster than on traditional x86 systems with equivalent specs.

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Click through for more hardware options, accounts of wild things people are doing with this, and a word of caution to those going all in.

The future of software engineering is SRE.

Here's Swizik Teller.

When code gets cheap, operational excellence wins.

Anyone can build a Greenfield demo, but it takes engineering to run a service.

Hard to disagree with that, but I'd augment it by adding that running services is also getting easier at the same time.

Still, he has a great point.

One compounding factor in the agentic AI hype is that it opens the fun part of software development to a whole new set of people.

Exciting stuff?

Yes.

Sustainable software?