#data-engineering
4 articles
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The Last Generation of Data Engineers?
How agentic platforms are quietly making the pipeline-builder's job description obsolete -- and what survives the transition.
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AI Engineer vs Data Engineer vs MLE: Who Actually Ships Agentic Systems?
Org charts are lying to you. The job title says 'AI Engineer' but the work varies wildly. Here's the honest picture of who actually builds and ships agentic systems in 2026.
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Databricks Agent Bricks Is Quietly Changing How Data Engineers Work
Describe the task. Connect your data. Let the platform handle the rest. That is the promise of Agent Bricks — and for a specific, important set of data engineering problems, it is actually delivering on it.
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How We Cut LLM Token Usage by 90% in SQL Migration Using AST Compression
Feeding 200K-character SQL files to an LLM is expensive and unreliable. We built TOON — a compact AST notation that gives the model structural awareness at a fraction of the token cost.