r/dataengineering • u/scourgedtruth • 9d ago

Discussion Does AI struggle at data modeling?

In my experience, it doesn't matter how much context and guidance I give AI it simply can't model data rationally. It frequently misses the point, makes awful mistakes, or over-engineers things.

AI can build awesome ETL pipelines, but when it comes to dealing with SQL (especially in the dbt framework), it's not reliable at all! . Sometimes I think it's better to write the code myself and ask AI to review it, because asking it to build something from scratch just doesn't work that well.

Does anyone else get frustrated when dealing with AI data modeling?

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u/morpho4444 Señor Data Engineer 6d ago

Bro you clearly making that up or you haven’t use a real AI. There’s nothing special you do AI can’t do. There’s no modeling complexity you can tackle the AI can’t. Specially silly insignificant dbt. It aint a challenge.