TechHacker Noonabout 6 hours ago
Faker Output Fails as Synthetic Data
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Faker generates random column values without cross-row coherence, breaking foreign keys and distributional invariants in schemas past roughly ten tables. Production data follows Benford's law, log-normal balances, and Zipfian activity, which Faker's uniform generators miss. Seedfast founder documents three failure modes and tool categories.
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