Hardening my Dev Container Setup
I run AI coding agents inside a Docker container for safety. The setup is dev.dockerfile: builds the image dev.sh: launches the container with the right mounts and env vars dev.test.sh: verifies everything works. I wrote them semi-manually and it had bugs. I had GitHub Copilot + GPT-5.4 High update tests and actually run the commands to verify the setup. Here’s what I learned from the process. 1. Make it easier to review. The first run took long. I pressed Ctrl+C, told Copilot to “add colored output, timing, and a live status line”. Then I re-ran. Instead of a bunch of ERROR: lines, I now got a color-coded output with timing + a live status line showing what’s running. ...