I really like the CMU Agents Company approach of simulating a real world environment [0]. Is it perfect, no. Does it show you want to expect in production, not really, but it's much closer than anything else I've seen.
Damn. Super bullish on CMU. Somehow, they seem routinely left out of the top CS schools discussion at least in mainstream discourse: MIT, Stanford, Cal, .... Seen a disproportionate amount of stellar research come from there. Also, interestingly, I have met really incompetent people from all the other top 3 schools but am yet to meet an incompetent CMU SCS alum -- wtf are they feeding them in pitsburgh??