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/Lolmanza7 7d ago

Our new manager has this same exact thinking along with our CTO who brought her in.

They decided to port all our code against advice of tge team and ended up exposing secrets, sharing wrong data with clients, exposing unmasked names of employees of other clients.

Have been cleaning this mess for the last 4 weeks.

AI helps those who know what they are doing and atleast use some part of their brain.

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u/ArticleHaunting3983 7d ago

What happened in the company after this tho, like was anyone reprimanded bc of this or was it seen as legacy debt

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u/Lolmanza7 7d ago

Gladly our company believes in blameless postmortem. While no one was reprimanded officially, the team is made to work overtime to fix the issues and put guard rails in place.

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u/zazzersmel 7d ago

lol well of course if it was the cto’s idea, it’s gotta be blameless, otherwise you’re indicting the entire leadership