Vibe Check: Sandboxing, Skills, and Surviving Dev to Prod

In this livestream episode, James Bayer, CPO at Flox and a longtime infrastructure engineer from Pivotal and HashiCorp, joined Melanie and co-host Cecil Phillip. James walked through reproducible software environments built on the Nix ecosystem, showing the same Temporal environment running directly on macOS, inside a Docker dev container, and inside an Apple Container microVM, then made the case for treating AI skills like real software you lifecycle manage.

Topics covered:
- Reproducible environments with Flox, separating software packaging from isolation
- Running one environment three ways: bare macOS, Docker dev container, and Apple Container microVM
- Default environments and the manifest.toml for keeping utilities consistent everywhere
- Sharing environments across a team through hub.flox.dev
- Treating AI skills as software, with roughly 25% shipping with vulnerabilities
- Registering the Temporal skill with Claude and running a live workflow build
- Secrets management patterns with Keychain, 1Password, and Vault
- Package and skill firewalls, plus cross-platform portability across x64, ARM64, and Windows via WSL2

Resources:
Flox: https://flox.dev
Flox in Five: https://flox.dev/docs (five-minute getting-started tutorial)
Flox Hub: https://hub.flox.dev
Flox on GitHub: https://github.com/flox
Temporal Validated Patterns: https://temporal.io/resources/validated-patterns
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