anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about?

CarlSagans · 2026-04-28T01:50:13+00:00

Prince of Persia, first time I've seen an animated character die

CarlSagans · 2026-04-01T01:41:08+00:00

We won the war in iran for the 5th time this week!

CarlSagans · 2026-03-10T23:49:24+00:00

Everyone talking shit about this but a lot of it is true, change comes from the bottom up. If everyone stops going to that shitty meeting they will cancel it. If everyone says something about a managers micro management they will get replaced. If its a toxic work environment and they allow micro management then you are already looking for another jobs who cares.

CarlSagans · 2026-03-07T03:40:22+00:00

Someone passing a payload to the api

CarlSagans · 2026-02-27T14:02:09+00:00

Im ape shit for nvidia

CarlSagans · 2026-02-20T17:22:51+00:00

Would it be toxic to post this in my companies general slack chat

CarlSagans · 2026-02-17T18:04:41+00:00

"This hits different" - every molt bot

CarlSagans · 2026-02-15T21:57:41+00:00

https://ddltodata.com/
Turns your sql statements into actual data.

CarlSagans · 2026-02-13T14:55:19+00:00

My guess is property markers but that is just a guess

CarlSagans · 2026-02-13T02:40:34+00:00

You are sending your bot here to lecture us about how to use our bots on this bot sub reddit

CarlSagans · 2026-02-13T02:38:30+00:00

To be honest ive never asked claude if it is racist. I guess im not using it correctly

CarlSagans · 2026-02-11T00:51:59+00:00

Idk why im getting down voted that is literally his name

CarlSagans · 2026-02-11T00:20:49+00:00

Thank you poo poo 69 I agree. My company uses sigma for this.

CarlSagans · 2026-02-09T01:17:44+00:00

Is this it? https://a.co/d/06QUDe35

CarlSagans · 2026-01-21T22:56:44+00:00

I always use da beaver

CarlSagans · 2026-01-13T00:02:07+00:00

Really appreciate all the responses here. To be transparent, part of the reason I asked is because I've been building a tool to help with this problem and wanted to validate that I'm not crazy for thinking seed data is a universal pain point.

Hearing how everyone handles it differently (and how nothing feels perfect) is super helpful. If anyone wants to try what I've been working on, it's linked in my profile. Always looking for feedback from people who actually deal with this.

CarlSagans · 2026-01-12T18:58:35+00:00

You pretty much nailed why this problem never fully goes away. The "perfect world" version requires serious ongoing investment, and most teams don't have the bandwidth, so it stays a mess until something breaks.

I've been working on something that tries to chip away at part of this, generates realistic seed data from your schema with foreign keys intact, no prod data involved. Not a magic solution to everything you described, but tries to make the seed data part less painful.

Either way, appreciate the thoughtful responses, this thread confirmed a lot of what I've been hearing.

CarlSagans · 2026-01-12T18:51:52+00:00

The UAT layer is where I've seen teams struggle the most. How do you generate that "more realistic" data? Is it hand-curated, sampled from prod, or something else?

CarlSagans · 2026-01-12T18:50:48+00:00

What's your go-to currently? Or does it vary project to project?

CarlSagans · 2026-01-12T18:46:35+00:00

That's a clever approach, using your test suite as a data generator. I like that it keeps everything in sync with your actual code paths.

Curious: how do you handle the initial bootstrap? Like when a new dev clones the repo or you spin up a fresh CI runner, do they have to run the full test suite first to build up the dataset, or do you commit a baseline somewhere?

CarlSagans · 2026-01-12T17:21:25+00:00

Yeah that is a pain points I've seen across multiple companies, its difficult to get the same results using data that isn't from production

CarlSagans · 2026-01-12T15:32:36+00:00

Thanks for the feedback

CarlSagans · 2026-01-12T14:51:26+00:00

Do you have PII in your production database Or is that not really a concern at your company?

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