I kept running into the same frustrating issue on macOS:
“Disk is full”… but no clear explanation why.
At first, I thought this was just about cleaning obvious things like Xcode builds, Docker images, or node_modules.
But digging deeper, I realized something else:
A lot of disk usage is actually hidden and hard to understand.
It’s spread across caches, system data, build artifacts, and leftovers that macOS doesn’t really explain well.
Even without AI, this already makes things messy.
But recently, local AI tools made this worse.
Model files, caches, and downloads from tools like Ollama, Hugging Face, and Whisper just grow silently in the background.
At some point, it stopped feeling like a cleanup problem.
It felt more like a visibility problem.
Instead of asking “what should I delete?”, the real question became:
“What is actually taking space?”
That shift completely changed how I approached the problem.
I ended up building something around this idea while exploring the problem:
Would love to hear how others are dealing with disk usage, especially with dev setups or local AI workflows.
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