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AI and data engineering are so similar it's painful! - Agent workflows = data pipelines - Chunking text = data modeling - Embeddings = dimensionality reduction - Retrieval = indexing and partitioning - Vector search = join optimization - Prompt engineering = query tuning - Guardrails = data quality checks If you d…

Don’t be afraid to reinvent yourself! Don’t stop learning the lessons the universe is throwing at you. Sleep well to allow your brain strong plasticity so you don’t have to relearn painful lessons as many times in a row. Remember you can fail for 7 years straight and still be young and able to continue taking r…

Microsoft fabric is just Databricks from Temu

I’m glad I relied on StackOverflow for regexes long enough so that AI can do them for me now and I can avoid learning them entirely. What skill do you feel smart avoiding learning because AI can now do it?

Don’t be afraid to reinvent yourself! Don’t stop learning the lessons the universe is throwing at you. Sleep well to allow your brain strong plasticity so you don’t have to relearn painful lessons as many times in a row. Remember you can fail for 7 years straight and still be young and able to continue taking r…

I hate to say it but product manager is the safest role from AI. Data engineer will feel pressure. Analytics engineer will feel less pressure. Data scientist will feel even less pressure. PM will be elevated. CEO will be put on the stratosphere. Why is PM so safe? Strategic roles that involve tons of in person int…