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Re:ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines by causal on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:21AM (#50426039)
I find a lot of people take a very backward approach to agents: They adopt desktop versions with full access first, and only later discover sandboxes and cloud environments.

Claude and ChatGPT both come with free cloud sandboxes that work great! If they are just writing code there's little reason to hand over your laptop.

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Re:ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines by afzalive on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:42AM (#50426330)
For e2e testing?
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Re:ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines by viccis on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:46PM (#50428841)
>free cloud sandboxes

Can't speak to Claude, but the OpenAI cloud environments cost you something like 3x token usage last I looked into it.

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Re:ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines by stephbook on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:50PM (#50428899)
Not everyone programs nuclear reactors.

If you have a business account where client requests come in over GMail/Slack and you just do web design/payment integration or some such, go wild.

If you have a corporate codebase and access to prod, as well as family photos, well — different beast.

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