[npmn2]

Try using vscode remote over ssh, it connects to the machine over ssh and the experience is mostly seamless. Highly recommended.

[bityard]

Last I checked, it does far more than just connect to the machine over SSH. It pushes up a nodejs executable and then also pulls down other stuff from the web. And it will also leave an agent running on the host you ssh into, even after you exit vscode.

I can see this being okayish when logging into a dev EC2 instance or something ephemeral but it's not something I would ever want to do on something important.