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The AI cleaned up my Mac and freed over a terabyte

His Mac was down to 50 GB of free space and he had not noticed. He used AI to clean up the disk, and in under 10 minutes he had 1.2 TB free.

How it works

  1. Uses the AI to clean up his Mac disk
  2. Free space goes from 50 GB to 1.2 TB in under 10 minutes

Why it’s worth knowing

A coding agent did a chore most people put off for months. It found over a terabyte of space on a disk he thought was just full.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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