Why is there all the sudden an explosion of sandbox related posts and tools? Llms and agents always needed sandboxes… was it just the collective conscious decided all at once that it mattered and the area to focus building tools?
Coding agents are still a relatively new category to most people. Claude Code dates back to February last year, and it took a while for the general engineering public to understand why that format - coding LLMs that can execute and iterate on the code they are writing - was such a big deal.
As a result the demand for good sandboxing options is skyrocketing.
It also takes a while for new solutions to spin up - if someone realized sandboxes were a good commercial idea back in September last year the products they built may only just be ready for people to start trying out today.
My level of involvement decreases from step to step. I'm totally in control of the initial plan. I'm giving strong oversight of the technical plan. But by the time it comes to executing, I'm happy to let it completely take over and I'll review either at the end, or break it down into 2 - 4 phases for long plans and I'll review after each phases.
For this final step, which might be 30 minutes, I'll step out and do something else. I want to be sure nothing bad will happen on my machine if I do that, so sandboxing is important.
https://awesomeclaude.ai/ralph-wiggum has some tips and examples of it