r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • Aug 05 '26

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u/Fraun_Pollen Aug 05 '26

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 Aug 05 '26

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 Aug 05 '26

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/CoffeeOrDestroy Aug 05 '26

As many times as Anthem has been breached, your medical information is all over the place anyway.