“Branching allows you to make a snapshot of the real database, have all the changes that you make go to the snapshot and not affect the production database”

The MAD Podcast: How AI Gets Built - with Matt Turck · What Happens When Billions of AI Agents Hit Your Database? (Andy Pavlo)

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use database branching (snapshot copies) to give AI coding agents a sandbox for testing changes before applying to production

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