“Local agents work well for interactive development, but they are a poor fit for unattended workflows. They depend on individual engineers’ laptops, compete for local resources, are difficult to audit, and do not scale efficiently across parallel tasks.”
Quote · careersatdoordash.com
From “Laptop agents don't scale to unattended work”, found 2026-10-16.
A strong case for moving agent execution off laptops. Also: "Moving work into public threads changed the adoption pattern." Verified against a full-text repost because the primary site blocks fetches; see also InfoQ coverage.
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