How I Automated My Entire Dev Workflow with AI Agents (Running 24/7 on a Mac Mini)

I used to spend 3 hours a day on repetitive tasks. Now an AI agent handles them while I sleep. This isn't a concept post — this setup is running right now on a Mac Mini in my home office. Here's the full picture. What Gets Automated Task Before (Manual) After (AI Agent) Email triage 30 min/day Automatic Code review 45 min/day 12 seconds per PR Customer inbox check 20 min/day Hourly cron job Calendar reminders Forget constantly Proactive alerts Weather check Open app manually Agent tells me before I leave Market data Check 5 websites Live on my watch face Total time saved: ~2.5 hours/day. That's 75 hours a month I got back. The Architecture Mac Mini M4 (always on) ├── AI Agent (orchestrator) │ ├── Email checker (hourly) │ ├── Calendar scanner (every 4 hours) │ ├── Inbox monitor (Fiverr/orders, every hour) │ └── Market data fetcher (every 15 min) ├── Ollama (local LLM — free inference) │ ├── Qwen 3.5 9B (general tasks) │ └── Qwen 3 Coder 30B (via network GPU) ├── Notification layer │ └──