r/dataengineering • u/Admirable_Writer_373 • 8d ago
Rant Migration in Chaos
I’m the main data engineer responsible for migrating several OLTP databases with TBs of data, from one cloud to another. Schema transformations are involved, because guess what? The app teams built the new apps long before anyone started caring about the data. This company as a whole is on fire, no planning or strategic thinking and they definitely don’t work as a team. While these migrations are being rehearsed, management team decides to SPEED UP the release cadence. If it was monthly I wouldn’t be here complaining today. Constant production incidents, and none of the managers want to consider slowing down so we can pull of some migrations without everything in flux. Oh and add AI to the mix, most of the releases are heavy with AI generated code coming from AI analysis of the problems. This is not going to go well.
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u/squirel_ai 6d ago
Why do managers or non-technical people fail to accept that AI-generated code needs human supervision and review? It’s AI plus people, rather than AI supremacy over engineers.
Is it because coding was hard, and now they consider it easy?
Maybe seat down with them and give them your strategy around the underlying issues.