Fundamentally, you can't trust what worked on a developer's machine and you need a centralized system (the CI) to validate your build. So if the author is right

Fundamentally, you can't trust what worked on a developer's machine and you need a centralized system (the CI) to validate your build. So if the author is right, this will likely comes with the development taking place closer to the CI than the CI taking place closer to the development.