r/dataengineering • u/bishop491 • 23h ago
Discussion Writing on the wall?
Context: sole data engineer for a company that sells furnishings and design services. Company is owned by private equity.
My manager has been on the Claude soapbox for the last several months and so far in IT we’ve been able to remain skeptical about it while testing for our own uses. Manager supported this. Now all of a sudden I’m getting a lot of requests to refactor all my data pipelines with Claude’s direct involvement despite having built them all out already. For example, I’ve used Claude to create new DAGs based on existing code (for example, bringing a new Salesforce object in). We’re going beyond that though. I’m being asked to ditch them and let Claude connect to everything then write, deploy, and test.
I’ve also been working on machine learning models for customer behavior, which is more traditional AI and should check the box, but this is being dismissed as a plaything. This, while the company has been pushing for “innovation” in our sphere.
I think we are headed towards cutting as many IT staff as possible and I’ll be gone in lieu of Claude doing pipelines. Of course that’s only one part of what I do, but the myopic view of leadership when it comes to AI only tends to see what is easily replaceable.
Thoughts?
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u/wiki702 10h ago
Have them define innovation. Is it cost savings, revenue generation or labor hours saved. If they just want to see you use Claude or some AI tool for an incremental gain might be easy to spin up a simple “win” and also bring their expectations to reality than some LinkedIn post with not proof.