What’s Fivetran’s story, anyway? This is a wild work history, lol

I’m happy about the dbt/Fivetran merger. Ultimately, it’s better for the data community to have one big ETL company headed (hopefully) towards an IPO rather than two smaller ones stumbling along, hoping Databricks or Snowflake finally decide to acquire them.

the problem with being a data vendor is you only get to play with the shiny toys you’re building, not everyone else’s. super pumped to be back to being a practitioner soon 😀

fyi we are here

Cube did a reorganization, which sadly eliminated my role from the company as a solutions engineer in pre-sales. I am open to work in solutions engineering, devrel, product marketing, and possibly other roles. DM if you have interest or roles that you could refer me to.

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learn something new every day

currently using ai agents to build tests for ai agents

lots of people on LinkedIn etc ragging on dbt Fusion but from what i can tell, it’s mostly vendors worried that dbt just killed their strategy of reselling dbt core careful who you listen to out there, folks

chat with your data

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can’t believe jd vance killed the pope and they still elected an american to replace him

me heading to r/dataengineering to comment “why not just do this in dbt?” on every post about some insanely over-engineered data pipeline

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like many of you (statistically speaking), i am technically eligible to be the next Pope

time to rewatch The Young Pope

eli5: why do we need a separate protocol for agents to call other agents? couldn’t we just use MCP?

wild that versace has the same valuation as like, airbyte

if i were angel investing right now, my strategy would be to invest in anyone who’s totally ignoring AI there’s alpha in just building good old-fashioned products that solve users’ problems!

i guess i picked a good time to roll over my old 401k 🥴

just saw the phrase “vibe marketing” and i think i might poke my eyes out

good post that answered some of my questions about Iceberg and confirmed that other ones aren’t crazy! (e.g. won’t you have huge egress costs unless you’re *really* careful?) worth a read

i’ve noticed there’s a gap between how excited SWEs and data people are about AI. not sure what explains it. poor experiences with text-to-sql tools? concerns about being replaced?

very funny reddit post every comment is “we use Snowflake for SQL and Databricks for ML” and then half the replies are “you don’t need Databricks for that,” and the other half are “you don’t need Snowflake for that”

you hear a lot of people compare the AI labs to cloud providers like “openai is the next aws” but i wonder if the cloud data warehouses are a better comparison is openai actually just the next snowflake?

so many agent frameworks, so few agents

fun things happening in the district just north of me!

honestly i didn’t think google had it in them to build a SOTA model. impressed.

when the interviewer starts asking their question and it’s the one you practiced on leetcode last night

gonna be honest with y’all, basketball is an unwatchable sport… they score too often…

one thing i’m interested in is: who is responsible for deploying (internal) AI agents/apps at companies? it feels to me like it should be the data team, at least at smaller companies without a traditional IT org. but i’m not sure how often it is. who’s in charge of it (if anyone) for your company?

my main career goal is to get data engineers using typescript instead of python

the best part about having a baby is you don’t have time to follow the news the worst part about having a baby is you don’t have time to follow formula 1

chatgpt’s bracket isn’t looking so good…

i’ll be honest, i don’t understand the MCP hype i think it’s mostly driven by non-technical people whose understanding is just “wow, you can make ANY TOOL work with llms!!! 🤩” what am i missing?

other children’s authors: “harry was good, voldemort was evil. the end!” philip pullman: “your mission is to kill God and overthrow Heaven. you will be opposed by your mother. her primary profession is severing children’s souls from their bodies.”

duckdb has been around for 3.5 years longer than chatgpt but every post about it on here, hn, etc. still gets as much or more engagement than all the ai stuff people are hyping wild

Last night’s article in the Washington Post about D.C. police responding to a 911 call by illegally letting DOGE onto private property is unlike any news story I have ever read. Every single person should read this article and think about where our society is going.

Certainly!

i asked chatgpt to fill out my march madness bracket this year there were some gems but this was the best:

there are basically only 2 companies making a profit on AI right now: nvidia (obviously), and… accenture 👀

should i learn go or rust? 🤔

earlier this week, OpenAI announced two new “agentic” tools: the Responses API and the Agents SDK i’ll skip “what are they?” because you’ve probably seen (if not, see the link below). but why are they important? (spoiler: it’s not *just* because agents are all the rage right now)

you have to admire Sigma’s commitment to making “data apps” happen like two years after everyone else moved on

under-appreciated point that the main beneficiary of Trump’s tariff chaos is China

interesting post with a non-hypey perspective on LLMs and AGI. imo most of the AGI hype is just marketing for the big labs (and their secondary rounds) but looking past the hype doesn’t have to mean thinking they’re not useful! www.lesswrong.com/posts/oKAFFv...

bullish on gpt-4.5 scale is back!

i haven’t had a chance to use either yet, but i really like the idea behind sqlmesh’s virtual data environments and now this (dlt+ cache) the analytics engineering dev workflow is finally getting some major upgrades!