AI Mac Migration replaces Migration Assistant

The pitch is strong: agentic local AI is genuinely useful when the problem is “move a messy, long-lived workstation without inheriting years of cruft.” The risk is also obvious, and the post itself proves it: without hard verification and guardrails, an autonomous migration tool can silently drop critical data.

• –The project is more interesting as a workflow pattern than as a one-off migration script: scan, reason, transfer selectively, then verify
• –Local inference matters here because the task involves sensitive system state, licenses, SSH keys, and file inventories that most people won’t want sent to a cloud service
• –The failure modes are the real story: missing `~/Applications`, lost VMs, license state, and photo integrity are exactly where “smart copying” needs deterministic checksums and explicit inclusion rules
• –It’s a credible example of where large local models can beat traditional utilities, but only if paired with strict validation and rollback
• –The Mac-specific angle makes it compelling for power users, but the broader lesson is about agentic infrastructure for stateful system migration