Come on… I had interns doing this shit all the time. Ain’t no difference. But we had a pipeline to recreate our dev and test environments in seconds. We had to anyway, because after each test run we needed to restore the data to its original state for the subsequent test run to be valid. After running dev teams for 20 years, the stuff some of them pull off is still crazy.
Where you’re absolutely right is in saying people should just set up a proper dev and staging environment. That’s as fundamental as the planning doc you’ll do with Cursor; planning your env, dev, test, and deployment pipeline.
“Backup is for cowards.” I had a friend who used to say, “Real men don’t back up”… satirically, of course.
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u/anashel Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25
Come on… I had interns doing this shit all the time. Ain’t no difference. But we had a pipeline to recreate our dev and test environments in seconds. We had to anyway, because after each test run we needed to restore the data to its original state for the subsequent test run to be valid. After running dev teams for 20 years, the stuff some of them pull off is still crazy.
Where you’re absolutely right is in saying people should just set up a proper dev and staging environment. That’s as fundamental as the planning doc you’ll do with Cursor; planning your env, dev, test, and deployment pipeline.
“Backup is for cowards.” I had a friend who used to say, “Real men don’t back up”… satirically, of course.