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From Local to Remote: Working with Coding Agents over SSH

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Slot: 11:00 AM
Day: Day 1
Type: Talk
Speakers: Ben Vinegar
Venue: Hyatt Regency Miami
Guide page: Focus.AI Labs style
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Official Session Summary

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Many engineers have already adopted terminal-based coding agents. This talk is about the next step: moving those workflows off your laptop and onto remote machines. I’ll show why I like running coding agents over SSH: remote machines stay up 24/7, don’t compete with local resources, make persistent sessions easier, and create a better environment for long-running or multi-agent work. We’ll cover remote machine choices, tmux workflows, CLI agent options, terminal-friendly browsing and screenshot tools, TUI development, editors, and review workflows. If you already use coding agents in the terminal, this talk is about how to make that setup more durable, scalable, and agent-native.

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Ben VinegarModemFounder

Founder of Modem and longtime developer tooling leader, known for pragmatic workflows and an operator’s perspective on how tools fit real teams.

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This is one of the more substantive abstract-backed sessions on the schedule; worth opening when you need enough context to decide whether to stay in the room.