alt Hacker Newsbeen using cline extension in vscode (which can execute commands and look at the output on terminal) and it's an incredibly adept sysadmin, cloud architect and data engineer. I like that cline lets you approve/decline execution requests and you can run it without sending the output which is safer from a data perspective.
It's cool to have this natively on the remote system though. I think a safer approach would be to compile a small binary locally that is multi-platform, and which has the command plus the capture of output to relay back, and transmit that over ssh for execution (like how MGMT config management compiles golang to static binary and sends it over to the remote node vs having to have mgmt and all it's deps installed on every system it's managing).
Could be low lift vs having a package, all it's dependencies and credentials running on the target system.
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I have heard good things about Cline! I'm curious to learn more. I need to try it out myself.
I see Codebuff as a premium version of Cline, assuming that we are in fact more expensive. We do a lot of work to find more relevant files to include in context.
Are you an adept sysadmin, cloud architect, and/or data engineer?
It’s a weird catch-22 giving praise like that to LLMs.
If you are, then you might be able to intuit and fill in the gaps left my the LLM and not even know it.
And if you’re not, then how could you judge?
Not really much to do with that you were saying, really, just a thought I had.