Close your editor before heavy jobs? The heavy job lives inside my editor

I run an automated video pipeline that generates images locally, on my Mac. A 16GB M4. The image model is FLUX, a 12B-parameter thing that keeps ~7GB of weights resident in memory even quantized down to 4bit.

Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/jun_uen0/close-your-editor-before-heavy-jobs-the-heavy-job-lives-inside-my-editor-2l5h)