With Telepresence, you can code your Kubernetes services locally on your laptop, while connecting to your remote Kube cluster. This is useful when you want to use an IDE or debugger, or when your entire application doesn't run in minikube.
Telepresence lets you code services locally while connecting to other services in your cloud-hosted Kubernetes cluster. This lets you use your favorite dev tools (IDE, debugger, etc.) without setting up all of your application (databases, other services, etc.) locally.