Budget the Round Trip Before Scaffold Work Leaves the Laptop
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A backend developer kept an agent loop on a laptop while a large monorepo index rebuilt for the third time that afternoon. The loop needed a fresh file map before it could propose a narrow refactor, and the fan was already loud. A free remote server could finish that index sooner, yet the working t…
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- 2026-10-08 07:04 · DEV Community — AI
Budget the Round Trip Before Scaffold Work Leaves the Laptop