Last month, our staging server threw a 502. I had Termius open, connected to the right box, and started debugging. Fifteen minutes in, I realised I was copying error messages into ChatGPT in a separate browser tab, pasting commands back, and praying I didn't mix up which terminal tab was staging vs. production.
That moment made me question whether my SSH setup was actually helping me or just giving me a familiar place to be slow.
So I spent two weeks testing 6 SSH clients against three real tasks every developer recognises:
Deploy a Node.js app to a fresh VPS
Debug a down service at odd hours
