Assistants fail at flights and taxes, so this dev containerizes each task into a Docker "app" — and wants to open source it
NikEy · reddit · 2026-10-17
A Reddit user catalogs concrete AI assistant failures: Amex Travel booking blocked by CDN, sales-tax filing failing on an outdated certificate, Google review reading errors, Amazon customer service blocking the agent. His fix: build each task as its own Docker container "app" — permissioned data, restricted egress, its own browser and login state — instead of a generic skill. Each container does one task well. He's considering open sourcing the approach and exposing it as a curl-callable service any assistant could use, and is soliciting which apps the community wants.
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