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  • I say mantra because there is a large amount of people just hating AI outright, without a grounded reasoning.

    Granted, coding agents are insecure by default - they are built to execute remote code - but that does not mean they are generally useless/harmful/bad. I run them in a container, with access to the codebase only.

    Also, they hallucinate, produce over-convoluted abstractions, do not know when to reject instead of blindly trying to find a way trough a brick wall.

    But also, they can answer questions about gigantic codebases way faster than I could. They can generate tests, find missing test coverage, review code, and many other things.




  • Well, these are some kind of lightweight container, no? But without isolating network, or /etc, /proc, /usr, /var or dbus.

    I do agree that linux needs a notion of an “app” (isolated, with access only to its config and files you give it, and a small, well-designed set of APIs for interacting with the system). For coding agents, I think a better answer are development containers, because that would be needed to prevent npm/cargo/python build scripts from causing harm anyway.