Development is about to outgrow the laptop

As AI coding agents shift from occasional helpers to persistent, parallel collaborators, the laptop is becoming an inadequate host for development work. Agents that respond to CI triggers, run overnight, and interact with production credentials demand elastic compute, sandboxed environments, and centralized audit logs — capabilities native to cloud infrastructure. The argument is that local machines will remain the control surface for editing and iteration, but heavier execution will migrate to the cloud, mirroring how distributed systems already operate.