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Start free trial →Accidental Tech Podcast · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · October 2026
Arment was explaining why he ordered a new maxed-out MacBook Pro to replace two machines. His point is that AI coding agents running in the background make local build and test speed matter more than when he typed all the code himself.
It's very nice. So what I've been doing a lot recently, the number of times that I am away from home has just gone up in the last couple of years. I'm bouncing back and forth a lot more between the beach. I'm doing a lot more stuff, going back and forth with the city. Oh,
he got two of them.
And the other thing that's changed massively in the last six months is I'm doing a huge amount more agentic software development. And what that, so what I've had is desktop laptop and laptop laptop. Desktop laptop is the M3 Max, all decked out. I've used it as a desktop. It stays at my house most of the time. If I go to the beach for the summer, I'll bring it. But for the most part, I'm traveling with the smaller one when I'm just going somewhere for a day or a weekend or something. I'm bringing a smaller one. And I've liked having two different computers in a lot of ways. Casey Liss, you know, like I'd run the beta on the small one, but not the big one and stuff like that. Like I would, I would treat them differently. But one thing that's getting increasingly high of a pain in the butt is trying to coordinate clawed code between the two and trying to coordinate any kind of AI project and options. Operation between the two because these things just don't share well. And also, because like when I when I first got the travel one, the M4, the base model M4 14-inch, I wasn't writing that much code like on the train and on the ferry. But when I would, I'm like, well, there's only so fast I can type, and I'm not going to be held back that much by the build speed of…
This is the way.
And, you know, and look, this stuff is changing a lot. So it's possible in six months I might say that's no longer the right move. I don't know. Probably not, but who knows? But it is getting increasingly obvious to me that the best way for my current computing needs to continue is to have one…
you going to trade in the 16-inch, sell it? Or is someone in your house going to use it? Where has that gone?