Lol. Yes, let's tow our hitches to the most unreliable and expensive component in our stack and call that progress. An app in 2030 (or, hell, 2022) should be r

Lol. Yes, let's tow our hitches to the most unreliable and expensive component in our stack and call that progress. An app in 2030 (or, hell, 2022) should be reflexive. If it works in production, it should work on your machine, without any code changes, and vice versa. Therefore, devs should _absolutely_ be able to iterate locally with this guarantee (enforced by CI). I do agree that the ability to quickly create an ephemeral, scaled-down version of the app's production environment in $CLOUD is important, particularly for integration testing. But using that for full-time dev isn't a good idea IMO. Slightly unrelated, this: > But I Need To Code on a Plane? > Maybe stop flying so much. Or get a good audiobook and rest your eyes. Maybe even talk to your neighbor! (if they seem social) is where I stopped reading. Absolutely appalling lack of empathy. I normally fly for work. The flight is the time I use to get shit done that I can't during the week. I hate small talk. So I'll continue coding on the flight, thanks.