But the cloud can and will be a fundamental part of the new developer tools.

Since reading the blog post's mention of Repl.it I went and downloaded their new Iphone app and used https://modal.com to spin up 30-40 containers from a script doing sentiment analysis on ~30k movie reviews: https://twitter.com/jonobelotti_IO/status/158291976221638656...

This cost me about 5 cents.

Developer environments and workflows built around the idea that you won't compile and run code on your own device can do wild things at the press of an Iphone app button.

U.C Berkeley has called part of this vision 'serverless for all computation', https://kappa.cs.berkeley.edu/.

edit: Another user also pointed to Stanford's 'gg': https://github.com/StanfordSNR/gg.