Dev Ditches Approval-Gated Assistants, Runs One Inside a VM Instead
davidcrawshaw · x · 2026-10-09
In the thread on over-restrictive AI assistants, davidcrawshaw reports his assistant refused to use an MCP tool citing permissions. His workaround: run the assistant inside an execution VM, which works far better than fine-grained approval gates.
Related event: Ex-Docker Engineer Slams AI Assistant dots Over Permission Overload(2 posts)→
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