Except they haven’t said that.
If you’re a serious developer then you’re going to have a machine that has more horsepower than one suited for everyday tasks.
Heck, when I brought my M1 Air years ago I made it a 16GB simply because I knew I was going to do some light development on it and needed to ensure it could run the IDEs and apps I was fritzing with simultaneously - including the need to run Docker (now Podman).
Personally I’d much rather Apple have a 16GB baseline as a matter of course, but this article is simple ragebait.
