[mab122]

but then, but then your corporate provided laptop with 8GB RAM and 128GB with locked down Windows Entprise™® may need 1000th of security policy exceptions and won't even fit all dependencies on its disk. Not to mention that it would be building for like 10h. Think of the shareholders! The corporation would have to buy actually usable hardware for it's workers! Think of the cost! /j

For real tho, not every project can be build by everyone locally, but at least parts of it should be locally runnable for devs to be able work (at all IMO). What I am noticing is more and more coding is being done on some server somewhere Github Codespaces anyone? Google Colab? etc.

What I am also noticing is that this tools like GH-A there is not really a way to test the CI code other than.. commit, push, wait, commit, push, wait... That's just absurd to me. Obviously all CIs have some quirks that sometimes you have _just run it_ and see if it works but this... it's like that for everything! Abusrd I say!

[ManBeardPc]

True, many of the problems are not solvable by technology alone. Hostile environments can be created for every approach if the corporation doesn't know/care how to do it properly. Luckily I'm blessed that my employers mostly give me admin permissions on my machine and provide decent hardware. The hardware my customers force me to use though... lets say at least I have some free time for other things.

Laptops are a lot cheaper then the cloud bills I have seen so far. Penny pinching every tiny thing for <100$/€, but cloud seems to run on an infinite magic budget...