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VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)

310 points · 218 comments · Rapzid

  1. kittikitti · · focus · HN ↗
    I think the last time I linked SSH to a few V'sM through VSCode it auto-installed node, npm, and hundreds of megabytes of npm packages, then it persisted a node service. It's bananas that it still does this. I have never used SSH through VSCode again.
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