Tomer Benami

@LLMSherpa Thats why we built Tonic Textual. Already working with many of the gov Agencies. This is a good task for custom entity detection and redaction. Or better yet, synthetic replacements tonic.ai/capabilities/g…

Figured out why the redactions are so bad in the Epstein releases. They're using software to automatically redact specific strings of characters. Gee. Why would they be trying to redact every mention of the letters don t ? 🤔

Generate any data, in any format, of any structure, in any database. All on demand. You can now get complex, realistic synthetic data just by asking for it. We built an AI Agent that turns natural language into comprehensive datasets for AI and software development. 1. Create structured SQL databases and unstructured files (PDF, DOCX, JSON) in the same workflow. 2. Describe the data shape, edge cases, and relationships in plain English. 3. Download immediately as SQL, JSON, CSV, and raw files or send data to any destination database of your choosing like @Oracle , @databricks , @Snowflake , @Supabase, Neon, @postgres , @MySQL , @SQLServer, and many more I'd love your support on Product Hunt: producthunt.com/products/tonic… You can also try the Agent out for yourself. tonic.ai/fabricate

Shout out to @vercel for their outstanding streamdown library: streamdown.ai. No more layout/style shift as markdown chunks stream in from Fabricate's data agent! Today we released Fabricate 3.2.0, which allows users to export to: - Parquet - Databricks - MongoDB - Oracle Generate synthetic data using Fabricate's data agent: tonic.ai/products/fabri…

The @tonicfakedata team is back and energized from our annual offsite glamping at Zion National Park with @theautocamp We spent the week working, hiking, and bonding in nature. We're returning with fresh ideas and clear focus for 2026. It’s going to be a great year.

Generating a synthetic FHIR from @HL7 resource is a foundational capability for developing healthcare software and AI systems, but generating a realistic patient journey is the true challenge for building advanced agents. A real patient journey has temporal and causal relationships. Symptom → Diagnosis → Procedure → Medication. The events and the timing between them are critical for testing clinical AI. Most synthetic data tools miss this completely. Today, a Fortune 500 healthcare company asked us at @tonicfakedata if our Data Agent could model this entire care continuum, including the complex inter-resource relationships. The answer is yes. It's not just a data generator; it's a system simulator. It understands the logic of a clinical pathway and can generate the chain of #FHIR resources to match.

@im_roy_lee The tools changed. The taste didn’t. You still have to know what’s good.

it's low iq to complain about ai slop content without having made good content yourself given a thousand tries, most of you would not be able to generate a SINGLE video people want to watch ai makes it easier to make content making good content is just as hard

@PeterJ_Walker Agreed. Seed is way too early. Most startups don’t even have PMF. They’re judging getting paid for their ideas at that point.

@Tbenami I'm pro-secondaries. But seed is tough to justify beyond investor competition

Secondaries from OpenAI, not worried. Secondaries at seed and Series A where the founder takes out more than the current ARR? Not great. Definitely happening though.

@SahilBloom Everyone talks about building generational wealth. Almost no one talks about building generational memories.

A Reflection on the Little Things (Why we're moving to Boston) You're going to see your parents 15 more times before they die. In 2021, that simple statement, which later became the opening line of my book, changed my life. My wife and I were living in California at the time, 3,000 miles away from our parents. I had been there for 12 years––a college baseball scholarship had brought me out West, and then a lucrative job opportunity had kept me there. In a lot of ways, that felt fine. Growing up, if you're fortunate enough to have healthy parents, your default assumption is that they're immortal. Obviously, you know they're not, but the idea of mortality becomes a conceptual or intellectual one, not a visceral reality you've really contemplated. As you get older, you realize: The answers you seek in life are found in the questions you avoid. When I was confronted with that simple math––of the number of moments I had remaining with my parents––it forced me to confront one of those questions I had been avoiding. What were my real priorities? And were my actions aligned with those priorities? You see, there are two types of priorities in life: 1. The priorities we say we have; and 2. The priorities our actions show we have. And often there's a big gap between the two. I know. I was living it. Your life improves alongside your ability to close that gap. But you can't close it until you acknowledge that it exists in the first place. I saw the gap and knew that if something didn't change, we were going to end up with a life we never wanted. So, within 45 days, my wife and I took a dramatic action. We uprooted our life in California and moved back East with the goal of living within driving distance of both sets of parents and my sister, who were all in Boston. My wife's job agreed to move her to the NYC office––and with my decision to take a leap of faith into pursuing writing and entrepreneurship, the suburbs outside the city seemed like a good interim landing spot. It wasn't perfect––around three hours from Boston––but we made it work. We were blessed with our son, Roman, in 2022. My wife took a step back from her career to focus on being a mom. My new path was bringing me energy and opportunities I never imagined. And we were spending time with our parents multiple times per month, albeit with someone driving a long way to do so. For the first time in over a decade, life felt like it was in flow. But somewhere along the way, that changed... When you're young, you grow accustomed to focusing on the big things in life. The celebrations. The birthdays. The weddings. The events. The weekend escapes. One way I think about this youthful mindset is that the meaning you derive from any given activity is effectively proportional to the scale of your investment in it. I noticed that every single time we were seeing our families, it had, by virtue of the long drive investment required, been for something big. We couldn't casually get together on a Tuesday evening for a walk, so we got together for the birthdays, the long weekends, the anniversaries, and the holidays instead. And we slowly, silently, slipped into a life focused on the big. Author Kurt Vonnegut once wrote: "Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things." I think the first time I really noticed it was this spring. My parents decided to drop by our house on their way home from a weekend visiting their dear friends in the area. It was one of those perfect spring evenings. The smell. The sounds. Everything. I had cooked dinner for all of us. Laughter and conversation flowed. When dinner ended, I found myself sitting alone, sipping a glass of wine, watching as my son chased my parents around the backyard. The joy on his face only surpassed by the beaming smiles on theirs. In that moment, I had a realization: This was it. It wasn't big or glamorous. It was a little thing that meant everything. A few weeks later, we drove to Boston for my wife's grandmother's funeral. After the service, we loaded ourselves back into the car for the three hour drive home. There's something about death that brings extraordinary clarity to life. In that moment, my wife and I locked eyes and uttered the same striking thought: We should move to Boston. To be there for the big, but more importantly, for the little. I want to be able to go for a walk with my dad to get his thoughts on a challenge I'm facing. I want to be able to take my sister out for a coffee. I want to be able to grab lunch on a Tuesday with my mom, just because. I want to be able to see my son play dinosaurs with all of his grandparents on a Wednesday morning. None of that is big. But that's ok. Because the real texture of life, the real meaning of life, is found in the little. We live in an era where authenticity is at an all time low. Many of the people we see talking about a thing don't actually live by it. I refuse to be a part of that trend. If I'm going to talk about it, I'm going to be about it. I want you to be able to trust that I live by the words I write and speak. So, this week, just a few short months later, we did it. We packed our life into two moving trucks, sold our house, and hit the road for the drive to Boston, one last time. After 20 years of being spread out across the country––of being forced into a focus on the big––my entire family is going to live in the same area again. A new adventure. A whole new world. Little things that become big things. I'll end with a quick story... A few weeks ago, I drove my son to run an errand at the grocery store before heading to my in-laws' house for dinner. He asked where we were going. I said, "Home." He looked at me, confused, "Why do you call it home? That's not home, that's Mimi's house." My response: "Home is wherever there are people you love." He smiled, satisfied, and just said, "Oh!" So, here's the truth: We're moving home. And I couldn't be happier about it.

@deedydas Secondary liquidity was supposed to de-risk innovation. Instead it’s become the exit. When founders get rich before the business works, incentives collapse. You can’t fake hunger once you’ve eaten.

@Codie_Sanchez The biggest unlock for me was understanding how investors think in terms of cash flow and opportunity cost, not effort. That shift alone changes every business decision.

@AdamMGrant The hardest shift as a leader is realizing feedback isn’t a threat to your authority. It’s the proof you’ve earned trust.

@gregisenberg We’ve hit the paradox. People want to go offline, but they need an app to help them do it.

the internet used to be an escape from reality. now, reality is an escape from the internet. there are 2 ways to make tons of money right now: build niche tools that fuel the scroll or build things that stop it.

@sweatystartup Funny thing is, capability starts with boredom. If kids never get the space to struggle or figure things out, they never build the muscle. Most “incompetence” is just over-helping disguised as love.

Your goal as a parent: Raise kids who are capable. The problem: Parents brush their kids teeth until they are 10 years old. They pick out their clothes. They bathe them. They make ever meal. Get them water. Then they grow up a bit and they do their college essays. They help them schedule travel. They help them apply to jobs. And the kids are incompetent.

@AdamMGrant I’ve learned this most in hiring. The best teammates aren’t the ones who say all the right things in interviews. They’re the ones who quietly follow through when no one’s watching.

We judge people too much by their fleeting opinions—and too little by their consistent actions. Anyone you meet is likely to hold some views you dislike. No one is as bad as their worst idea, and no belief is set in stone. The true test of character is how people treat others.

Agentic AI now makes this possible. Instead of waiting for access, you can have a conversation to generate millions of rows (or PDFs, Word, PPT, etc.) of realistic, safe, and statistically-representative data in minutes.

The new workflow: Describe the data you need, in plain English (or any other language). Generate it on demand. In any format or structure. Export it to a CSV or a destination database of your liking. This is the shift from finding data to fabricating it synthetically. It moves control from a central team directly to the developer.

The slowest thing in your dev cycle isn't your code. It's the data request ticket. Here's how to eliminate it forever. 🧵

The AI race just shifted again. Qualcomm’s new chips are gunning for Nvidia & AMD. Meta’s spending $27B on data centers. Open AI lined up deals for $1.5 million in chips over the next several years. It means the battle is now infrastructure over models. Whoever owns the silicon, supply chain & rack scale footprint is setting the pace. Whoever controls the racks controls the race.