The speaker favors local development because it matches developers' current work environment and lets them correct failing agents without the delay of SSH or reproducing a remote environment locally.

“The reason I like it right now is because it's where”

“where developers are doing their work. And when agents fail or need to be corrected,”

“it's very convenient to correct them without the like long feedback loop of like either SSH-ing or trying to like replicate a remote environment locally.”