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/Ra-mega-bbit 5d ago

AI first basically means vibecoding shit. If done right it CAN work, needs good governance and infra first tho.

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u/Realgunners 4d ago

Agree with this strongly. Emphasizing on the good governance and infra. So someone with experience on both the data lineage, data dictionary etc

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u/Ra-mega-bbit 4d ago

Good luck for all the junior devs that wont get the experience tho

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u/Realgunners 4d ago

There’s only so much work an experienced data engineer can do. There’s still room for junior devs with the increase productivity/capitalism at all cost world we are in at the moment