Mac Studio 36GB as a local agent machine: Ollama for simple tasks, cloud for hard ones
A user with a new 36GB Mac Studio asks for a high-level local agent stack, currently running OpenClaw with a $500-per-month Codex plan on a Mac mini. The suggested split is Ollama locally for simple tasks and cloud models as the fallback for hard reasoning, keeping only a few quantized models on the 512GB drive.