[aidos]

Sounds like you’re talking about something else (more like the Citrix / virtual desktop type model - I don’t know the name).

The idea here is that you use a VM (cloud or local) to run your compute. Most people can run it in the background without explicitly connecting to it.

[crabbone]

What you describe isn't a development process in a remote environment. You are testing on some remote compute resource. Testing is a non-essential part of development, so, in a sense it "doesn't count" that you test somewhere else -- you cannot call it "developing in a remote environment".

Otherwise, you could say that, for example, reading documentation on a Web page you are doing "development in a remote environment" because, well... most likely that Web page isn't hosted on your laptop.

The essential and mandatory part of development is that a program is written. If you write the program on your laptop, you aren't doing "remote development", no matter where other tools you use for development are running.