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From Containers to Sandboxes: Developer Trust in the Agentic Era

The 2026 Stack Overflow Developer Survey shows only 7% of developers trust AI output for important decisions. Here’s what that means for running agents safely.

Published By From Docker Blog · 1 min read

What the 2026 Stack Overflow Developer Survey tells us about where trust goes next

If you’ve followed Docker lately, you know we’re all-in on sandboxes. We’ve spent a ton of time talking about the difference between sandboxes and containers, and helping our customers and the industry as a whole understand when to use which. In fact, Docker president Mark Cavage dedicated his opening keynote at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America to this exact topic, using live demos to show why sandboxes (and not containers) provide the level of isolation required to contain autonomous agents.

To be clear: none of that means we suddenly think less of containers or the vital role they will continue to play in the software development…

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