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@@ -117,10 +117,8 @@ Optionally you can seed the GraphQL service by executing mutations that
 will write sample data to the database:
 
 ```bash
-yarn run build
 yarn run db:seed
 # -or-
-npm run build
 npm run db:seed
 ```