And you don't need to stop there. Claude Code also has great open alternatives you can run in any environment you like, with any model, and under economic arrangements you define. See https://oss-ai-swe.org/ for a few. My current favs are OpenHands and Codex CLI.
Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
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Yeah, I don't think you deserve the down votes for expressing an opinion (except maybe that it doesn't add a lot to the conversation), but speaking from personal experience, the whole AI coding thing has been pretty amazing for me. I'm technical, I can read code (even write some of it), but actually completing things or getting started on serious projects is really hard: partly because I am not a professional develop…
I swear to you that if you program the way I do you (without any AI tools or even developer tools made after 2005) you will learn 100x more and achieve 100x more
Re: Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
#23I have enjoyed running Claude Code in a container. The biggest advantage for me isn't security though, it's how easy it becomes to spin off agents to work in the background. I use a simple script that copies my working directory into a container, prompts Claude Code, and then either saves a planning document locally, or opens a pull request in GitHub for me to review. I quite like this because it makes starting agent…
Any interest in sharing the script?
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#242-ish questions: Is this level of fear typical or reasonable? If so, why doesn’t Anthropic / AI code gen providers offer this type of service? Hard to believe Anthropic is not secure in some sense — like what if Claude Code is already inside some container-like thing? Is it actually true that Claude cannot bust out of the container?
I have personally never seen claude (or actually any AI agent) do anything that could not be fixed with git. I run 24/7 in full permissions bypass mode and hardly think about it.
Re: Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
#25I have enjoyed running Claude Code in a container. The biggest advantage for me isn't security though, it's how easy it becomes to spin off agents to work in the background. I use a simple script that copies my working directory into a container, prompts Claude Code, and then either saves a planning document locally, or opens a pull request in GitHub for me to review. I quite like this because it makes starting agent…
Even locally, Claude in multiple terminal tabs/windows can do different tasks in parallel
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#26I use DevPod [1] to run Claude Code within Docker-based dev container environments, and it's been fairly seamless. It lets me run environments locally and focus Claude's context on just the repo I want it to work on.
[1]: https://devpod.sh/
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I don't think you deserve the down votes for expressing an opinion (except maybe that it doesn't add a lot to the conversation), but speaking from personal experience, the whole AI coding thing has been pretty amazing for me. I'm technical, I can read code (even write some of it), but actually completing things or getting started on serious projects is really hard: partly because I am not a professional develop…
I swear to you that if you program the way I do you (without any AI tools or even developer tools made after 2005) you will learn 100x more and achieve 100x more
Except you glossed over the part where the person said they lacked time.
There is programming the art and programming to solve a problem. The art is great - I’ve written software for decades. Life dictates I no longer have as much time, but I still want to solve problems. AI helps me do that in the limited that I have.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I don't think you deserve the down votes for expressing an opinion (except maybe that it doesn't add a lot to the conversation), but speaking from personal experience, the whole AI coding thing has been pretty amazing for me. I'm technical, I can read code (even write some of it), but actually completing things or getting started on serious projects is really hard: partly because I am not a professional develop…
I swear to you that if you program the way I do you (without any AI tools or even developer tools made after 2005) you will learn 100x more and achieve 100x more
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Re: Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
#292-ish questions: Is this level of fear typical or reasonable? If so, why doesn’t Anthropic / AI code gen providers offer this type of service? Hard to believe Anthropic is not secure in some sense — like what if Claude Code is already inside some container-like thing? Is it actually true that Claude cannot bust out of the container?
> Is this level of fear typical or reasonable?
Anyone with more than one toolbox knows that fear isn't required. Containers are about more than security, including stuff like organization and portability.
> If so, why doesn’t Anthropic / AI code gen providers offer this type of service?
Well perhaps I'm too much the cynic, but I'm sure you can imagine why a lack of portability and reproducibility are things that are pretty good for vendors. A lack of transparency also puts the zealots for "100x!", and vendors, and many other people in a natural conspiracy together, and while it benefits them to drum up FOMO it makes everyone else burn time/money trying to figure out how much of the hype is real. People who are new to the industry get leverage by claiming all existing knowledge does not matter, workers who are experienced but looking to pivot into a new specialization in a tough job market benefit from making unverifiable claims, vendors make a quick buck while businesses buy-to-try and forget to cancel the contract, etc etc.
> Is it actually true that Claude cannot bust out of the container?
Escaping containers is something a lot of people in operations and security have spent a lot of time thinking about long before agents and AI. Container escape is possible and deadly serious, but not in this domain really, I mean all your banks and utility providers are probably using Kubernetes so compared to that who cares about maybe leaking source/destroying data on local dev machines or platforms trying to facilitate low-code apps? AI does change things slightly because people will run Ollama/MCP/IDEs on the host, and that's arguably some new surface area to worry about. Sharing sockets and files for inter-agent comms is going to be routine even if everyone says it's bad practice. But of course you could containerize those things too, add a queue, containerize unit-tests, etc
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#30This is the idea I had in mind while doing https://github.com/textcortex/claude-code-sandbox