diff --git a/server/cabal.project.dev-sh.local b/server/cabal.project.dev-sh.local
index c292a421df6..236117bfe70 100644
--- a/server/cabal.project.dev-sh.local
+++ b/server/cabal.project.dev-sh.local
@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@
 -- which in turn consults this file.
 --
 -- You can temporarily override values here rather than modifying 'dev.sh'
--- during development (although that might break certain things)values here 
--- rather than modifying 'dev.sh' during development (although that might
--- break certain things).
+-- during development (although that might break certain things).
 
 package *
   documentation: true
@@ -26,3 +24,5 @@ package graphql-engine
   -- which is not what we originally wanted. But building the test modules
   -- themselves with coverage is actually nice for validation.
   coverage: true
+  -- to match CI:
+  ghc-options: -Werror