But, it's still running on my desktop/laptop. I don't trust them to run on my machine. But, I guess I could run one VM with a desktop to contain the desktop app. Or, just keep using CLI agents.

But then I close my laptop and it’s not running on the headless host anymore right

Examples here?

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What's stopping a CLI from doing the same?

I've never used IDEs and never will, why are these things being constantly shoved down our throats?