If your whole workflow is one Claude Code instance on your MacBook, you're leaving 10x on the table. Here's why. On your laptop, running 2 agents at once means two copies of your code, and you're constantly fighting over which worktree you're on and whether everything's synced. It caps out fast. Cloud agents in VMs let you run as many as you want without worrying about any of that. Each one gets its own machine, so the work never collides. Spin up 10, let them all run, and nothing steps on anything else. Watch full ep below on @startupideaspod. Thanks to @ryancarson for sharing the sauce. Cloud agents are probably the future. So is doing half your work from your phone, which sounds insane until you try it once. Then you don't go back.