If you can move your tabs to tmux, you will greatly improve your situation. It's easy.
Then you can, for instance, make your development machine a dedicated cloud server, like digital Ocean etc.
This is what I do and it's very nice to be able to use any hardware I want, including cheap underpowered stuff, since it's just a window to my real machine.
I use tmux to group shells by context, setting a shell variable that various things in my bashrc respond to. The biggest win is a separate bash history per context, so my commands related to project A don't get mixed up with my commands related to project B or my sysadmin commands or ...
What language(s) do you develop in though. I found this was fine for certain languages, but others such as C#, swift or perhaps Java really suit having a fat IDE. Or perhaps its me?
I also use a digitalocean droplet for my development, but I'm programming in Python, bash, JavaScript/HTML/CSS, PHP, MySQL. I wouldn't do this if I were using Java, Java without an IDE is painful.
Then you can, for instance, make your development machine a dedicated cloud server, like digital Ocean etc.
This is what I do and it's very nice to be able to use any hardware I want, including cheap underpowered stuff, since it's just a window to my real machine.