Remote development used to be the exception. Now it is how most of us work. You SSH into a build server, push to a cloud VM, flash firmware on a device sitting in a lab three time zones away, or spin up a container that lives on someone else's hardware. It is convenient, and it is also a much larger attack surface than a laptop that never leaves your desk. The code you are writing, the credentials that code uses, and the machines it touches are all reachable over a network, and a network is something other people can reach too.
The good news is that securing a remote dev environment is mostly a matter of doing a handful of unglamorous things consistently. None of it is exotic. The problem is that under deadline pressure these are exactly the steps people skip, and attackers know it.
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