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/validat... --- Temporal is the simple, scalable, open source way to write and run reliable cloud applications. Learn more Blog: https://temporal.io/blog How Temporal Works: https://temporal.io/how-temporal-works Community Slack: https://temporal.io/slack Developer resources Docs: https://docs.temporal.io Courses: https://learn.temporal.io/courses Support forum: https://community.temporal.io