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This just seems like a lot of cloud costs to take on, considering how much power developers laptops carry and would be completely untapped. Instead of having everything remote, to me it appears more sensible to have a distributed development environment. I guess this would look something like the dagger.io folks are shooting for.

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I think the steelman answer is that if this works well, you don't give developers powerful laptops; you give them cheap laptops that are little more than dumb terminals. (Whether that works is left as an exercise for the reader.)

we’re not seeing cloud costs be too terrible at DevZero - with proper hibernation/suspension, cloud costs are ~$50-60/mo in the worst case admittedly, we target only enterprise companies where the cost of loss of dev efficiencies is much higher

Say net cost to company for an engineer is $100k-$200k+. Even a net 10% savings over a year means $10k-$20k+ vs a $600-1k/yr investment (in worst case). Security posture is also significantly improved, which admittedly is harder to assign a $ value to

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