I started working with VSCode in container ~3 years ago [1], at first I just felt I'd like to have control over the environment but later it made more sense when I switched to codeium windsurf [2]- I thought it's safer not to let agent loose in my filesystem
[1] https://github.com/grzegorzk/vscode_in_podman
[2] https://github.com/grzegorzk/codeium_windsurf_in_podman