2026-09-03 07:43 UTC
I've always wanted a tool that allowed actual, real SSH to behave mostly like `mosh`. I wanted durability across connection changes, laptop open/shut, etc. I could easily give up the nice latency hiding features of `mosh` (predictive echo, etc) for being truely an SSH replacement: agent forwarding, port forwarding, the works.
Unfortunately, I'm not a networking person, and so this had a pretty steap learning curve for me. Just too much for me to really commit the time and tackle it.
But _wow_ have AI coding tools gotten effective... I have successfully nudged AI coding tools to produce a `mosh`-like tool that uses vanilla `ssh` over its existing `ProxyCommand` capabilities through a fancy UDP / NAT-punching QUIC bridge. At least with black-box testing, it seems to pretty clearly do what I wanted on the tin...
That said, I'm not about to do anything with this w/o going through the code and understanding it. I still care about actual quality, understanding how code works, etc. But I'd love to have help from anyone interested in a solution to this problem, and willing to sift through AI-generated code and call it out on its BS or decide "yeah, this is reasonable". It's 100% Rust code, open source, etc. Would anyone be up for helping?
Eventually, I think I might be willing to shell out to even pay for a proper security review from a reputable firm, but want to make sure the basic software engineering of the core is legit first.
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