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Which command do I not understand? Devpod.sh is open source, and while I'm not a master of Go personally I can tell it's basically running docker commands for me. Should I not run docker itself without reading the source code too?

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You said dev onboarding was about blindly running a command someone else wrote.

Yes, it is, but I don't think there's a productive world in which new engineers don't onboard by running commands blindly based on a doc somewhere. I just want a world where those commands reliably work with very few host dependencies. With devpod, I think we're close (only 1 dep that's statically built and docker engine)

Again, you shouldn't run commands you don't understand, onboarding or not.

Understand what the command does and why you're told to run it before you run it.

What would you recommend onboarding to a new project entail? Studying thousands of lines of code before doing anything? Should they study containerd or just the docker CLI?

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