GoKawiilFly.io engineers criticize VSCode's remote-SSH agent as bloated
A Fly.io team post examines VSCode's remote SSH extension, noting that rather than running lightweight shell commands like Emacs's Tramp does, it deploys a Bash script that downloads and installs a full agent, including a Node.js binary, on the remote machine. The authors say they are exploring integration with this remote-editing flow because so many developers now use VSCode forks paired with LLM code-generation agents.