(Admittedly the Mac Studio is slower, since it was released ~360 days ago - probably not the best time to buy one, but who knows when they'll update it.)
The author states the desire is to match the architecture of the servers they deploy software to, which seems reasonable - depending on the software, it can be very useful to be able to run/debug the same binaries locally.
https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-i9-13900...
https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-16-inch-2023-...
(Admittedly the Mac Studio is slower, since it was released ~360 days ago - probably not the best time to buy one, but who knows when they'll update it.)
The author states the desire is to match the architecture of the servers they deploy software to, which seems reasonable - depending on the software, it can be very useful to be able to run/debug the same binaries locally.