[joepie91_]

Realistically, though, almost always at least some portion of your hacks makes it into production. And if you're saving 10 minutes for 5 hours lost, then even at a going-into-production-rate of 10%, it's still not worth it.

Hacks that remain hacks in 100% of the cases, are rare :)

[derefr]

I've always thought it would be a great idea to create an explicit "prototyping database" that has limitations that actually prevent you from putting it in production, no matter how small your use-case. Things like "erases random rows after 24 hours" or "default row limit of 100; can increment this by 100 once per day by solving a CAPTCHA."

[djacobs]

I think my experience is different from yours (I don't let spikes make it past my own branch), but as far as production goes, we're on the same page!