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Careful with that. I made the term up to see what Claude would make of it but I don't know if it was already a thing.

Agreed. What surprised me was its willingness to adopt the alternate term with apparently well justified reasons, when I expected its fundamental 'identity' would be well baked in to prevent it straying into more nefarious characters.

Great suggestions here. I'm using Warp Terminal regularly (https://www.warp.dev/) which works for me very well but Alacritty and iTerm2 (my last go to) are only being mentioned. Should I be worried!

The argument for using containers is primarily in your first two steps, far less so for deployment and profit(!). Having all of your apps code and dependencies in a self-contained, er...container, that was portable between different systems and perhaps more importantly, different developers, is arguably the main reason for using Docker.

If for now it's just you and you're not planning on spinning up in AWS ECS, CloudRun, any flavour of Kubernetes etc. then go with what works for you. All good.