Running autonomous AI agents on Apple Silicon for $1.50/month (14 errors later)
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Re: Running autonomous AI agents on Apple Silicon for $1.50/month (14 errors later)
#2Author here. I use Claude Code as my primary dev environment. Wanted autonomous agents I could message from Slack without sending everything through cloud APIs.
The 14 errors are the real content. OpenClaw's docs assume you're using hosted models. Running a 24B local model on a Mac Studio exposed silent failures at every layer: model registry, auth resolution, context management, sub-agent spawning. Error #14 required patching OpenClaw's compiled JS bundle directly.
Key optimization that made it usable: KV cache quantization (Q8_0) nearly doubled usable context and got generation speed from 12 to 49 t/s. Dual-slot GPU allocation prevents sub-agents from starving the main agent.
Happy to answer questions about the setup.
Re: Running autonomous AI agents on Apple Silicon for $1.50/month (14 errors later)
#3Author here. I use Claude Code as my primary dev environment. Wanted autonomous agents I could message from Slack without sending everything through cloud APIs. The 14 errors are the real content. OpenClaw's docs assume you're using hosted models. Running a 24B local model on a Mac Studio exposed silent failures at every layer: model registry, auth resolution, context management, sub-agent spawning. Error #14 require…
You make an interesting point about home IP address, do you have any numbers around how much is too much?
Re: Running autonomous AI agents on Apple Silicon for $1.50/month (14 errors later)
#4Author here. I use Claude Code as my primary dev environment. Wanted autonomous agents I could message from Slack without sending everything through cloud APIs. The 14 errors are the real content. OpenClaw's docs assume you're using hosted models. Running a 24B local model on a Mac Studio exposed silent failures at every layer: model registry, auth resolution, context management, sub-agent spawning. Error #14 require…
You make an interesting point about home IP address, do you have any numbers around how much is too much?
Unclear, how much is too much... what?
Re: Running autonomous AI agents on Apple Silicon for $1.50/month (14 errors later)
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
You make an interesting point about home IP address, do you have any numbers around how much is too much?
Unclear, how much is too much... what?
> your home IP is now tied to whatever the agent does. If an agent scrapes a site too aggressively, your ISP may notice. Route agent traffic through a VPN for anything beyond light browsing.
What is the light browsing you mentioned? 10 sites, 100 sites. At what point you felt it as too much to be considered light browsing.