> Markdown version of [/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1394-yolo-developer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1394-yolo-developer). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md).

---

# YOLO Developer Workflows with a Coding Agent in a Box


- **Date:** Friday, Jul 10, 2026
- **Time:** 16:20–16:50 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 5
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 Europe

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100350-yolo-developer-workflows-with-a-coding-agent-in-a-box)

## Description

As coding agents like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and Gemini CLI become part of developers’ daily workflows, one problem looms large: we’re letting them run wild on our machines (or put ourselves into a Skinner box, playing an agent-approval slot machine game). The ideal workflow is “YOLO mode". where an agent can freely edit, build, and test code. But that freedom shouldn’t come at the cost of safety or control.

In this talk, we’ll explore how Docker is building an opinionated developer experience for running coding agents safely inside sandboxes, combining the isolation benefits of containers with the seamless UX developers expect. We’ll discuss what we learned from Devcontainers (and why they never saw broad adoption), and how sandboxes evolve those ideas to make “safe by default” not just possible, but pleasant.

You’ll leave with a new mental model for local coding agent based development: fast, flexible, and fearless, the YOLO workflow done right.

## Speaker

### [Manuel de la Peña](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@manuel-de-la-pena)

Staff Software Engineer at Docker


## Related talks at this congress

- [AI Sandboxes:  Running Coding Agents Safely in Production-Grade Environments](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1236-ai-sandboxes-running) — Kristiyan Velkov, Shivay Lamba
- [Trust code you didn't write: From code review to confidence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/953-trust-code-you-didn) — Ben Hutchison, Carl Fagerlin
- [Always-On Autonomous AI Agents: Exploring the OpenClaw Abstraction](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1235-always-on-autonomous) — Anshul Jindal, Tsubasa Onishi
- [You don't need to write the code. You need to become a verification architect and prove it's correct](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-europe/sessions/1007-you-don-t-need-to) — Guillaume Moigneu