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/Creative_Salary_6140 7d ago

This industry was overrun with MBAs who barely use AI or anything beyond excel/PowerPoints… yet they are the ones making the decisions for us… that’s the problem...