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Coding agents need real sandboxes, not just permission prompts

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

At AI DevCon London, Docker's talk highlighted the risks of autonomous coding agents accessing sensitive developer data. The speaker argued that prompt-level guardrails are insufficient once agents can act on behalf of users. Docker Sandboxes offer isolated microVM environments to contain these risks.

Meridian48 take
The talk underscores a growing security gap as AI agents gain autonomy, but Docker's solution is just one approach in a rapidly evolving field.
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