A developer has abandoned local MacBook development entirely in favor of a cloud-based agentic environment, reporting significant productivity gains from the shift.
The video details the specific tooling stack making this possible, with Cursor serving as a central component. The argument is not that local machines are bad, but that agentic workflows fundamentally change where computation should live and who, or what, is doing the typing.
Worth reading in full for the concrete setup details and the honest accounting of tradeoffs. If you are still treating AI tools as autocomplete bolted onto a local IDE, this challenges that baseline assumption directly.
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