I must have been living under a rock for the past five years, because Crystal went completely unnoticed until last week. As a long time Ruby programmer, I'm eager to give it a try.
Readit Newsmolson8472 commented on How the Valley treats experienced people rachelbythebay.com/w/2018... · Posted by u/zdw
I wonder if part of the issue is a kind of unspoken fear that the “dream” outcome may not be as common as people want to believe.
If I am a young developer with more stock options than salary I want to believe that I will have the option of retiring early. Seeing older devs who were not able to “cash out” plays poorly with that narrative.
Nailed it.
molson8472 commented on Software Development Estimates: Where Do I Start? diegobasch.com/software-d... · Posted by u/clarkm
I really like this statement: "Every new piece of software is a machine that has never been built before. The process of describing how the machine works is the same as building the machine."
That's probably the best way of relating the problem to non-engineers that I've heard.
I started running Claude Code in a devcontainer with limited file access (repo only) and limited outbound network access (allowlist only) for that reason.
This weekend, I generalized this to work with docker compose. Next up is support for additional agents (Codex, OpenCode, etc). After that, I'd like to force all network access through a proxy running on the host for greater control and logging (currently it uses iptables rules).
This workflow has been working well for me so far.
Still fresh, so may be rough around the edges, but check it out: https://github.com/mattolson/agent-sandbox