https://percona.community/tags/development/Recent content in Development on Percona CommunityHugoen-us© Percona Community. MySQL, InnoDB, MariaDB and MongoDB are trademarks of their respective owners.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://percona.community/blog/2026/05/05/how-i-stopped-babysitting-my-coding-agent-with-dotfiles/Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://percona.community/blog/2026/05/05/how-i-stopped-babysitting-my-coding-agent-with-dotfiles/<p>Most developers at least try to use coding agents for development-related tasks, but babysitting LLMs and managing their permissions is no fun. Completely skipping permission checks is a dangerous idea on your main machine, and setting up containers or VMs for sandboxing is a pain. Can we do better?</p> <h3 id="the-autonomy-problem">The autonomy problem</h3> <p>If you work in software development, you have most certainly heard the phrase:</p> <blockquote> <p>Let&rsquo;s just use an LLM to solve it!</p>