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Working-Set Overflow: When a Local Agent Should Yield to a Free Server

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On a delayed commuter train, a backend engineer watched a local coding agent chew through a bulky integration-test rewrite. The repository held container layers, snapshot fixtures, and multi-gigabyte logs that the laptop could not keep warm. Disk thrash rose while the tunnel killed the cellular lin…

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  1. 2026-09-16 03:48 · DEV Community — AI
    Working-Set Overflow: When a Local Agent Should Yield to a Free Server

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