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It's time for all developers to learn about devcontainers and use them consistently. They're super easy to setup and run and would protect from most of what this worm does. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers is the best guide to get started if you use vscode.

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They help only to the extent that you have completely isolated credentials: the hard part isn’t the container, it’s things like fastidiously using separate least-privilege credentials everywhere and not using tools or editor integrations which don’t support that style of work. Once you map your GitHub or AWS token into a container, it’s no longer useful as a security boundary.

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