Surely shoving VSCode into a tab is just step 1. Think about what this could do, that your local app couldn't.

Off the top of my head: Complete remote state. Open vscode.dev on your desktop, work for a while. Then open vscode.dev on your Macbook Air later, and be in _exactly_ the same state. I don't mean, the same project, I mean the text cursor is at the same position in the same file with the same set of tabs open.

Need a GPU for some CUDA work? The only question is how many GPU cores would you like.

Could your next engineering hire's onboarding guide be: open vscode.dev/company/workspace, click the "run all tests" button. OK, you're done, please pick the topmost "ready to start" ticket from the queue.

This already exists with github codespaces. https://github.com/features/codespaces