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CAN YOUR LLM VIBE CODE YOUR SEMANTIC LAYER?

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A strong semantic layer can dramatically improve LLM analytics accuracy, with the best model-built layer reaching 91% versus 39% with no layer. The main failure mode was not metric arithmetic but hidden business conventions like which accounts count as customers, showing that semantic layers still need explicit human-defined rules and validation.