Comment by jt2190

What the author should have made more clear is that we’re starting to see technology that eliminates the “local developer environment” completely, and we’re also starting to see collaborative real-time code editors. Taken together, we can imagine a world where a dev points their browser at codebase hosted somewhere and just starts editing. Each edit is a change event that the system reacts to by running compilers, then unit tests, etc. and provides near real-time feedback that the code works/doesn’t work, right in the editor. In this world the developer does not push their changes, the system does that for them, while they’re working. The CI server disappears from view completely.