And, make coding harnesses run 20x faster at many multi-processing and file operations by running the coding harness itself inside of Linux instead of MacOS…

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celrenheit 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

That's actually how clawk runs it: the agent process (claude/codex) runs inside the Linux guest on a PTY, not on macOS

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mlnj 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Is file IO a bottleneck now?

	▲	ttul 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		A lot of the work that coding agents do requires tons of random access to files, which MacOS is particularly slow at. Not because the hardware is bad, mind you. Mac SSDs are amazing. It’s the file system. Secondly, MacOS supervises processes for security reasons and coding harnesses spawn tons of processes. There is a lot of CPU overhead embedded in that supervision.