Journal

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

Trust, But Re-Execute

Trust, But Re-Execute

An agent that writes analytics reports will eventually invent a statistic. Ours announced a 26.7% reply rate no query produced. This is how Spot's report generation was rebuilt so a report cannot state a number it didn't compute — and the blind, adversarial scoreboard that proves it.

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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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