The End of Localhost: Why Cloud Dev Environments Are the Future

The End of Localhost: Why Cloud De Environments Are the Future If you're still running npm start on localhost:3000, your development workflow has an expiration date. Not because localhost is bad, but because it's fundamentally incompatible with the AI-agent-powered development that's already here. Within the next few years, the idea of running a development environment on your laptop will feel as outdated as deploying code via FTP or debugging with console.log statements everywhere.