How I Freed Up 400 GB of Storage on My Mac Thanks to Claude Code
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How I Freed Up 400 GB of Storage on My Mac Thanks to Claude Code
If you’re not Very Online and, specifically, Very Online and Plugged Into AI News, you may not know that over the past couple of weeks, a lot of folks seem to have realized that it’s possible to use Anthropic’s Claude Code desktop coding agent to do a lot more than just coding on a computer. I count myself amongst those people, and I think I know why this is happening now: the combination of a holiday break and the recently released Claude Opus 4.5 means people have had a lot of free time on their hands to tinker (we know this), and they’ve been able to spend some quality time with a really good model. Plus, when you consider how much Claude Code has grown over the past year since its introduction with skills, hooks, plugins, a web version, and other features that can be quite overwhelming at first, you’ve got yourself a recipe for Maximum Tinkering that has resulted in a lot of people sharing some utterly fascinating non-coding workflows for Claude Code. The more I read these stories, the more I wonder if Anthropic should rename their product ‘Claude Agent’ instead of 'Claude Code’, which is selling it short at this point.
We’ll be exploring this frontier of coding agents as, actually, general agents on MacStories throughout the course of 2026. Today, I thought I’d start simple: would you believe me if I told you that I used Claude Code to recover 400 GB of storage on my MacBook Pro?