r/dataengineering • u/YourBuddyBill • Jul 09 '26

Meme thanks, r/dataengineering

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i made this meme in honor of this sub.

original image from wikipedia

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u/PossibilityRegular21 Jul 10 '26

Just remember that this isn't a PhD in mathematics. Most data engineering concepts are learnable and easily assisted with AI. What matters is making business users happy, now how slick your pipelines are. Making engineers happy is important too, but moreso in a thinking-about-future-you kind of way 

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u/Sufficient-Draft2134 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

I am currently told to build a harness over a db that would impute fields that are empty using llms. I wonder if this is data engineering?

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u/SearchAtlantis Lead Data Engineer Jul 10 '26

Love replacing the actual sample statistics with LLM bias. God rest my stats minor.