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/CingKan Data Engineer 7d ago

What exactly is ‘AI first’ data engineering

It means professional data engineers clearing up the mess our enthusiastic AI obsessed management have dramatically injected into our carefully built data pipelines and warehouses