The $700 Mac Mini Regret: Cloud Agents Make Local Hardware Bets Look Premature

A viral post mocking people who spent $700 on Mac Minis to run local AI agents — only to see Claude launch equivalent features natively for $20/month — captured the cloud-versus-edge tension simmering in the AI developer community.

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