The trend towards cloud dev environments will continue for a while. Some people will spend years working full time developing support for these. They'll make as

The trend towards cloud dev environments will continue for a while. Some people will spend years working full time developing support for these. They'll make assumptions about network connectivity and resource cost while building layers and layers of abstraction to get the whole thing to work. Bringing up a dev environment will be mystified and no single person will know how to do it. Then someone will realise "hold on, can't my own computer run this stuff?", get rid of all the cloud layers and run the environment directly on their laptop. They'll write a blog post about it and people will be amazed that it's possible. And the cycle will be complete.