Plan Mode All the Time, Substrait over SQL, and the End of the DE Role ft. Chris Riccomini (opens in new tab)

This series interviews (see #1 with Mark Freeman) real practitioners to extract the patterns behind how they actually use AI in their data work today. This is the second interview in ‘How to use AI with DE’, and this time we have none other than Chris Riccomini. Chris has seen the data stack evolve over the years. He thinks AI will soon handle the majority of data engineering work, provided with the right tooling and access to CLIs and APIs. He also thinks LLMs might not speak SQL, but a form...