Marcus Webb

Most people don't think about the engineering behind a name generator, but there's real complexity under the hood. You can't just concatenate random syllables and call it done — you need weighted probability distributions that respect syllable structure, phonotactic constraints that prevent unpronounceable clusters, and species-specific rulesets that produce names with the right 'mouth feel.' I architected our engine as a pipeline: input parameters feed into cultural filters, which constrain a phoneme selector, which assembles candidates, which pass through a validation layer. If a name doesn't clear every gate, it never reaches the user.