> Which cool, great, I sure love "pip install"ing every time instead of just baking a single container image with it already installed.

Obviously the correct thing for such a use case would be building their own image with whatever tools are needed and then using that.

Unfortunately, then they’d probably get roasted for not maintaining the image well enough and not having proper enough automation set up to keep it recent in Docker Hub or wherever, which they’d then also have to do. On an individual level, it’s easier to just hold it wrong and do what works. Could also build the image locally once, but again, more work.

I think the ideal DX on Docker’s side would be:

  docker run some-container --pre-requisites “pip install…”

You just set up CI/CD on GitHub and have it dump an image into ghcr it’s trivial. Claude excells at seeing up workflows. I don't know why anyone bothers with Dockerhub at all really.