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Catching dev/prod drift with an LLM environment parity audit
Use Claude or GPT to diff dev and prod configs before they bite you in an incident.
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The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2environment parity
- 3configuration drift
- 4audit
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Section 1
The premise
Most 'works on my machine' bugs are config drift the LLM can spot in seconds if you feed it both sides.
What AI does well here
- Diff dev/staging/prod env files and flag suspicious deltas
- Group differences by category: secrets, feature flags, infra
What AI cannot do
- Tell you which delta was intentional
- Apply the fix without human review
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