You can use VSCode over SSH as well.

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Agreed. I sandbox agents using containers which also allows me to inject credentials and all sorts of things.

I think there's 2 clear layers in these coding tools: the runtime engine that lives ON the system, can execute commands, read/write files, make network calls and the UI, which can be a local (TUI) or remote.

A remote UI allows you to manage multiple remote runtimes concurrently and can even be on your phone.

Anyone preferring Desktop vs TUI is not managing multiple systems I would guess.