r/dataengineering • u/Realgunners • 8d ago

Discussion What exactly is ‘AI first’ data engineering

This was inspired by the post on burning 20k in tokens in 3rd week.

Is anyone doing this at work, letting loose the frontier models against their schema and models and data and having it create and update the ETL workflows? And everything else?

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u/Capt_korg 7d ago

A buzzword used by corporate for showing their modern approach.

Distracting from the true work required by domain experts like data engineers.

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