GitHub's zeeg: worktrees are the poor man's sandbox for coding agents
rsasaki0109 · x · 2026-10-29
A pithy take from GitHub's co-founder Tom Preston-Werner (zeeg): git worktrees are "the poor man's sandbox" — spinning up multiple working trees of the same repo is a lightweight way to isolate parallel coding agents, without reaching for heavier container/VM sandboxing solutions.
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