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Are we pretending Faker hasn't been a staple library in software testing for years?



Are we pretending GPT isn’t a leagues better data-faker than Faker?


As always, it depends on your requirements.

GPT definitely wins out if you want more novelty/variety in your fake data and are willing to accept extraordinarily higher cost, less rigor, and less reliability. I'm sure there's some occasion when those criteria win out, but Faker's pretty decent most of the time.


Thankfully using GPT doesn’t preclude you from using Faker, so I think we can all agree this is strictly an improvement in one’s ability to fake data.




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