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Re:Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS ... by wutwutwat on Monday March 02, 2026 @12:42PM (#47221300)
That's every virtual machine that's ever existed. They are slower than metal and you're running two OS stacks so you'll draw more power.
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Re:Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS ... by bobmcnamara on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:01PM (#47224007)
Hot forking would be a killer app here - far faster to clone a VM, screw it up, burn it down, and repeat than anything else
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Re:Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS ... by binsquare on Monday March 02, 2026 @02:01PM (#47222463)
Not every virtual machine, try microVMs.

I am building one now that works locally. But back in the day, I saw how extremely efficient VMs can be at AWS. microVMs power lambda btw

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