Journal

Reflecting on some of the toughest challenges I've tackled in my career.

Faker Gives You Fake Data. That's The Problem.

Faker Gives You Fake Data. That's The Problem.

Faker fills columns; it can't tell stories. A three-pass LLM pipeline that generates relationally coherent demo data — food bloggers RSVP to wine tastings, high-spenders buy VIP tickets, friends actually share cities — for under two dollars a run through the Anthropic Batch API.

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