VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas

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Hi, it’s us, Fly.io. We hate these things as much as anyone, but the marketing gods demand conversion metrics.

We’re interested in getting integrated into the flow VSCode uses to do remote editing over SSH, because everybody is using VSCode now, and, in particular, they’re using forks of VSCode that generate code with LLMs.

”hallucination” is what we call it when LLMs get code wrong; “engineering” is what we call it when people do.

LLM-generated code is useful in the general case if you know what you’re doing. But it’s ultra-useful if you can close the loop between the LLM and the execution environment (with an “Agent” setup). There’s lots to say about this, but for the moment: it’s a semi-effective antidote to hallucination: the LLM generates the code, the agent scaffolding runs the code, the code generates errors, the agent feeds it back to the LLM, the process iterates.

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