[kaycey2022]

It depends on the work. A lot of people just do web development where either they are fiddling around with APIs or interacting with some VM over SSH or are just creating presentations and reports. Even if you are working with a massive codebase, there are tools to just selectively run the tests that are relevant to the changes you made before pushing it all off to a CI/CD pipeline.

Even if fanless is a luxury, a lot of professional developers can just make do with something with the power of a 2016 Macbook Air. Then the nice-to-use screen, keyboard, trackpad etc are extras worth having, much more than a buzzing fan.