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Mac's permission model is designed for humans; Linux is designed for programs. An Agent is not an app—it is infrastructure. Running an Agent on a Mac is like stuffing a server into a laptop chassis—it works, but everything feels off.

I previously wrote about cost and power. This piece fills in the legal gap. The cloud is rented to you; the edge is sold to you. When AI Agents start making autonomous decisions, this distinction is far more than a business choice.

As AI shifts from chat to agents, compute demand grows a hundredfold. But the real challenge for edge devices isn't affordability—it's usability. The TCO trap is eating away at their potential value.