Comment by dregitsky

Yes it definitely sped up development! The main wins were around parallelization and autonomy:

1) full isolation (filesystem + compute per thread) 2) agents having a working dev environment that runs our app 3) being able to close our laptops and check in from mobile

The combo of these meant we could fire and forget lot of parallel threads like "root cause and fix this bug: add logging, run app, get a repro, write fix, validate live" or "build this feature, test new workflows live, send screenshots" -- and then come back later to review & iterate.

You can get to a reasonable level of this with locally with git worktrees and the right project setup, but in the cloud you can really fly.