Tuning a Linux Laptop for AI-Assisted Development

An author details how they tuned a Linux development laptop running Ubuntu and Claude Code to dramatically improve performance, battery life, and build times. By cleaning out bloated Rust build caches, changing the BIOS storage mode from RAID to AHCI to eliminate SSD freezes, adjusting kernel settings, and parallelizing database tests, they reduced boot time from over two minutes to 20 seconds and significantly accelerated test suites and local AI workflows. Open article →