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October 14, 2026
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Apparently, I Have an AI Fleet Now
By Cristiano Pierry
Local Macs, cloud workspaces, and AI agents coordinating work across them are making my collection of computers feel like a fleet.
I have multiple Mac Minis and two laptops, all running Codex and other agentic tools, including Muse and Grok Bot. The Minis are dedicated to agentic work, and the laptops have their own roles. This seems like a perfectly reasonable setup until I hear myself describing it to my friends.
Cloud computers are part of this arrangement too, with some agent work happening in hosted environments. I’m using local machines because they give me access to my apps and files, dedicated computers I can leave working, and control over how everything is set up. The Minis can keep working while I use the laptops for other things, and I can configure each machine around its role.
What amazes me is how much these machines can now do together. In my setup, Codex can work with threads on the same computer and send requests across machines. I can start a project on one, access files from another, and transfer information without first cloning the entire repository there. Work happening on one computer can become useful to work happening somewhere else.
With dots helping coordinate the effort, the machines can take on different parts of the work. At some point, we may need an org chart.
There’s something wonderful about being able to ask for work that crosses these computers without personally carrying every file and instruction between them. I still need to decide what I want and judge what comes back, but the amount I can set in motion from one conversation is remarkable.
Part of me is still just saying: I have a small fleet of computers, and I can ask them to work together. Welcome to frontier work :-)
This writing reflects my personal perspectives on product management, AI, and content discovery. It does not represent the official position of my employer or any affiliated organization.