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Consistency and permanence. There is much utility to be gained in having a terminal that you can always re-connect to, from different networks and indeed different client computer terminals, and yet still maintain your remote state on the system running tmux.

For example, I regularly run jobs that can go on for hours and hours, without much predictability - so using tmux means I can start the job at work, but then check in on it later on my iPhone during the commute back home, and then from my home-office system later, without fuss.

Using tmux this way makes your remote host a reliable development partner instead of giving you hassles if you lose your connection/need to relocate to another network provider/use a different terminal client than the one you started at the office, etc.