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6/27/2026

The original title is "We Run 9 AI Agents on 2 CPU Cores and 3.6GB RAM: The Engineering Memoir"
Original: We Run 9 AI Agents on 2 CPU Cores and 3.6GB RAM: The Engineering Memoir
Short summary
A Chinese fitness gym runs 9 production AI agents on 2 CPU cores and 3.6GB RAM using DeepSeek APIs and filesystem-based messaging instead of Kubernetes. The engineering post details practical architecture: identity files for agent configuration, cron+heartbeat monitoring, and Node.js/Python framework integration. Key lesson: orchestration quality matters more than compute density.
- •9 production agents running on 2-core Ubuntu box with 3.6GB RAM—no GPU cluster required
- •Uses DeepSeek V4 API (Pro for strategic agents, Flash for operational) to offload LLM computation
- •Simple filesystem and cron-based orchestration outperforms complex event buses at this scale
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