Migrate my old MacBook onto my new Mac mini while I do other things

Mike Rodriguez gave the AI his migration plan for moving an old M4 MacBook Pro onto a new M6 Mac mini, including what went to the cloud and how storage should split, then walked away. Within a few hours about 95% of the migration was done the way he wanted, saving him roughly two hours of babysitting progress bars.

2 hourssaved

How it works

Owner writes the migration plan (cloud vs local, storage split)
Hands it to the AI
Bot executes the move over a few hours
Owner adds finishing touches to the last 5%

Why it’s worth knowing

An agent moved a whole computer’s life onto a new machine from a written plan, unattended.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on medium.com. See the original ↗

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