Last night I finished a transition from my old AI coding setup I've been using for a while to running Claude Code in Docker using VSCode's "Dev Container" feature.
In this post I lay out a few of my thoughts on why I wanted to switch to something in the first place, and also a short guide for those who want to do the same.
If you are here just for the guide + code (a tiny single file), here it is:
https://github.com/tim-sha256/claude-in-docker
🥺 Important note!
I'm not a professional vibecoder (thanks god) and I don't generate AI code on 9-5 basis (meh)
I'm just a casual user occasionally getting help from llms on my projects, all of them being not corporate-serious-guys-enterprise-grade.
I'm not looking for the most advanced 100x dev tools or workflows, nor $100+ subscriptions whose token limits I'll probably only reach once a year on a sleepless night.
Before and why
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