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Discussion on: Cloud workstations: the future of remote work

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Rob Muhlestein

No, just no. Let me say it again, no. Anyone with any amount of significant experience as a developer or systems operations professional will tell you that having not only a powerful desktop that can run multiple VMs simultaneously is not just nice, but mandatory, but also that having a home lab is absolutely essential. The percentage of technologists who require such things is far higher than the few who can get away with depending on the Internet for development. Consider all the professionals who actually travel in airplanes, and on subways, and who are definitely not "digital nomads" they just want to be fully productive when disconnected. The very premise of git itself (the reason it won over every other source management solution) is based on the hard requirement to be productive anywhere --- without the Internet. Peer review and pair programming are valuable, occasional things. They are not the norm and never will be.