Dismantling Dystopian Futures with Humane Factories

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Claim: make sample data do more than tests by treating factories as shared operational fixtures. Uses FactoryBot linting, attributes_for in seed rake tasks, and a small REST layer via the hanger gem so end-to-end suites (Node + axios) can create realistic personas. Adds persona-driven seeds and an experimental future proofing with loops check that breaks CI when new personas regress features. Promises no analytics but shows concrete tooling, rake tasks, and cross-app endpoints that actually run in dev and staging.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:43Takeaways
3. 6:51Factory Bot
4. 7:17Active Record Instantiation
5. 23:00Why Personas Fail
6. 25:07Future Proofing with Loops
7. 26:46End-to-End Tests

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