10 essential reads on which data engineering fundamentals survive the agentic era
josh_wills · x · 2026-11-07
ssp.sh curates 10 essential reads on data engineering in the agentic era, headlined by an interview with Josh Wills (ex-Cloudera data science lead, creator of dbt-duckdb, now at DatologyAI). Key takeaways: model choice is more a preference than a capability gap; data engineering becomes like being an emergency pilot; boring work like migrations and unit tests is being automated. Other pieces cover context layers, semantics/ontology primers, idempotency, and Git-inspired data workflows.
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