Ardent (Ardent) let's you clone any Postgres DB <6s at TB scale so coding agents can test their code and engineering teams can ship fast without fear of taking down production. It's already being used by dozens of teams like Supermemory and Surface Labs with 10TB+ of data across... customers. Congrats on the launch, Vikram!show more

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@ArdentAI Is this actually faster than the copy on write cloning that postgres now _natively_ supports?

@ArdentAI seems like we could get a partnership going @insforge 👀 YC 🤝 YC

@ArdentAI The Postgres crash is a real fear. This is exciting!

@ArdentAI fear of breaking production is the silent tax. 😐 coding agents need real data to test against. mocks lie. this is the infrastructure that makes agentic dev actually safe. so far one of the kind tool for agentic work.

@ArdentAI Thanks for trusting us to produce this video!! 🫂

@ArdentAI That is a great idea

@ArdentAI what about data privacy?

@ArdentAI congrats!

@ArdentAI this is a good idea

@ArdentAI incredible product and founder 🐐

@ArdentAI This is a real problem. Great job @vchennai2

@ArdentAI LET'S GOOOOO

@ArdentAI I took more time writing this tweet than you replicating my db

@ArdentAI @vchennai2 github app still has your name instead of Ardent. Please fix.

@avimakesrobots @ArdentAI Let’s goooo

@ArdentAI this is going to be incredible

9 seconds. That’s literally how long it took one Claude agent to wipe out an entire company’s production Postgres DB + backups recently 😭 Ardent just made that nightmare optional. <6s clones of *any* Postgres DB at TB scale? Full isolated branches with real data for agents & devs? One CLI command, zero extra infra? This is the missing safety rail for agentic coding to actually ship at scale. No more mocks lying to you. No more “just don’t touch prod” prayers. Huge for anyone building with AI devs. Congrats @vchennai2 @ArdentAI @ycombinator — perfectly timed 🔥

@ArdentAI Dope product !

@ArdentAI Agents need real schema to do good work. Mocks lie. The hard part was always giving them production data without the blast radius. Sub-6s clone makes that a non-decision.

@ArdentAI let’s go! 👏👏 absolutely necessary if you’re building anything remotely data-intensive

@ArdentAI I can see this being the standard for RLDF (Reinforcement Learning from Database Feedback). You run an agent in a high-fidelity clone, validate the state change, and only then commit to prod. This is how we move from 'Chatbots' to actual 'Autonomous Engineers.' Massive congrats

@ArdentAI The best dev tools remove the fear from doing normal work at serious scale.

@ArdentAI Lfg Vikram!

@ArdentAI Buy a @NetApp . They've been doing this with every db for 20+ years. If you clone 6tb db 5x you'll destroy your storage. Think about it

@ArdentAI How about you can let your AI agent access the Postgres DB directly? lets you do that

@ArdentAI Wait isn’t this non-compliant. Having a copy of customer prod data on your laptop? What if some npm package compromises your laptop data

@ArdentAI Cloning a 10TB Postgres DB in under 6 seconds is actually wild. Most engineering teams spend hours just setting up staging environments or fixing broken pipelines. If this works as promised, it solves a massive bottleneck for teams using coding agents at scale.

@ArdentAI Great stuff

@ArdentAI A bit confused why even bother building this!?!?? I did this with Claude code when I gave it access to our read only about four months ago.

@ArdentAI been using production and staging database all this while. now, i can copy the data while my AI is still x-high thinking

@ArdentAI Congratulations @vchennai2 on the launch

@ArdentAI why would you clone/branch a db? why would you give *write* access to your clankers? can't they vibecode an ORM?

@ArdentAI Ayy congrats @vchennai2!