--- title: I used Claude Code to improve my operating system, and... description: A writer used Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based agentic coding tool, to audit and clean up a 4-year-old MacBook rather than for coding tasks. Claude Code... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/0fpodcksc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I used Claude Code to improve my operating system, and here's how it made me more efficient | daily.dev og:description: A writer used Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based agentic coding tool, to audit and clean up a 4-year-old MacBook rather than for coding tasks. Claude Code... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/0fpodcksc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0FPoDcksC.png og:image:alt: Post cover image og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I used Claude Code to improve my operating system, and here's how it made me more efficient **[Ragunathan Maniraj](https://daily.dev/sources/4j1ho_fff)** · [@ragu](https://daily.dev/ragu) · 26 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary A writer used Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based agentic coding tool, to audit and clean up a 4-year-old MacBook rather than for coding tasks. Claude Code investigated CPU/memory usage, login items, background services, and disk usage, finding only 6GB of free storage left, 35GB in developer caches (uv, Hugging Face, npm, Docker), and 8GB of RAM under heavy swap pressure from apps like Zen, Docker, Slack, and Spotify. Beyond diagnostics, the author had Claude Code build small automation scripts, including a one-command health check and a 'Work Mode' script to launch daily work apps. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@bits\_and\_bytes** · 4 upvotes > can you share the session hand of files of for this process while masking sensitive info. > it could helps my 8gb ram old pc. > or else can you share me the plan for this work **@kibongo** · 0 upvotes > I prefer to use github [.] com/tw93/mole. 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