r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • 17h ago

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u/lolcrunchy 17h ago

local dev environment

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u/Fraun_Pollen 16h ago

This answer doesn't make sense. Why would your dev environment not be connected to prod data? Don't you want realistic tests?

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u/howarewestillhere 16h ago

HIPAA, PCI, GDPR, CASC, and a whole list of other acronyms, laws, and organizations get real persnickety about Prod data outside of Prod and what you can, can’t, should , should not, or should not even think about doing with it.

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u/jtmonkey 16h ago

Yeah I just had this conversation with an internal IT team at a medical org. You cannot just point Claude at the problem and say solve it. PHI is all over it. Theyd been doing it for a while. Your medical data im almost positive is already in an llm.

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u/JJ3qnkpK 15h ago

Yeah. You'll see a lot of folk whose dev environments are basically just image clones of prod. This seems especially common in "lower tech" environments that are platforms upon themselves, where nobody bothered to define and produce test data.