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Asked Claude to look at my full disk. Thought for 1 minute

It found 114GB of Hugging Face models, 17GB worth of models in an obscure app I tested once. In places I would've never thought to look.

I'd never have never found these myself.

Problem solved. For now!

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Just looking with ncdu/du or another tool which sorts folders by size would have been much faster and easier, was there any need to use Claude here?

It is so wild that someone would let Claude index all of the files on their computers for such a bane request. We are really turning into the people on WALL·E

When your only tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail.

> 20+ years of software engineering experience across full-stack, backend, infrastructure, Site Reliability Enigneering, and AI engineering. Past work includes Uber, Airbnb, Canva, and a wide variety of startups - several of which I co-founded.

> I'd never have never found these myself.

You are either the most experienced most incompetent software engineer in the world, or you are lying.

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