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Notes on Mac storage and developer caches
What developer tools leave behind, what it costs to keep it, and what to do about a full Mac.
Mac storage got expensive. Here is how much of it your dev tools are wasting.
Mac storage is bought once, with the machine, and got dearer in 2026. Before you pay for a bigger Mac, look at what Xcode, Docker, npm and friends have left on the one you have.
Local LLMs eat disks. Where Ollama, LM Studio, Hugging Face and MLX put their weights on a Mac.
A 7B model is 4 GB, a 70B is 40 GB, and trying six of them for an afternoon leaves 50 GB behind. Where the files live, how they multiply, and what is safe to delete.