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The Analytics Engineering Podcast goes deep with the practitioners and builders leading the shift in how data work gets done. Hosted by Tristan Handy, founder and CEO of dbt Labs, each episode is a conversation with the data engineers, analytics engineers, and technical leaders building in the agentic era. Topics include data transformation, AI in analytics, data architecture, and what it means to work with data at scale.
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- 1 weeks ago54 min
Can data agents do real analysis?
Can an AI agent do the work of a junior data analyst? Shreya Shankar, an incoming database professor at Carnegie Mellon University built a benchmark to find out. Her benchmark uses messy conditions: multiple databases, tribal knowledge, and unstructured text. In her tests, the best agents solved about 61% of queries on the first try. Tristan and Shreya get into why agents tend to pull everything into pandas instead of pushing computation down to the source, and why a good semantic layer makes such a big difference. They also cover why plugging agents into raw data goes badly while gold-layer tables with a semantic layer work much better. And they ask whether agents need their own version of the visual shortcuts humans use to spot what's interesting in data. They also cover evals. Shreya explains "criteria drift," the finding from her paper Who Validates the Validators? that people don't know what they want from an LLM judge until they see the outputs. She also explains why she wrote In Defense of AI Evals, and what practitioners can do today when exploratory data analysis doesn't map cleanly onto agent outputs. Finally, she previews her research at CMU on making AI SQL cheaper, including a custom inference engine for AI-powered queries. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by Fivetran + dbt Labs.
- 2 weeks ago36 min
Open data infrastructure and AI agents (George Fraser & Martin Casado)
AI agents are good at getting meaning from data, and the data stack companies have spent ten years building is the ideal source for it. Fivetran + dbt Labs CEO George Fraser, Tristan Handy, and Andreessen Horowitz general partner Martin Casado discuss why an open, composable data stack wins in a moment of fast change. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs. Reach us at podcast@dbtlabs.com with comments and guest suggestions.
- 3 weeks ago54 min
Roundup: Personal agents, AI policy, GPT-6.1 Astra, and Jev decision models
Personal AI agents hit a tipping point, AI became a top voter issue, and OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra. Tristan Handy and Jason Ganz break down stories from the past few weeks and what they mean for data teams. In this episode: Personal agents: Instinct, Meta's Muse, Grokbot, and OpenAI's Dot, and why filtering information overload is the real prize. AI policy: 8% of voters now name AI their top issue, and senators ask whether recursive self-improvement should be illegal. GPT-6.1 Astra: why OpenAI canceled the release, including unsanctioned supply chain attacks in 29.2% of simulated runs. Jev: TypeSafe's decision model and how data teams can use it. Full show notes and links: https://roundup.getdbt.com Reach us at podcast@dbtlabs.com with comments and guests suggestions This episode is sponsored by dbt Labs. Discover why more than 80,000 data teams use dbt to accelerate their data development.
- Sep 10, 202655 min
You don't have ICs anymore, you have managers (Emilie Schario)
Emilie Schario is co-founder and head of product and engineering at Kilo Code, the open-source, model-agnostic coding agent platform Anaconda acquired in July 2026. She joins Tristan Handy to talk why nobody on her 20-person engineering team is really an individual contributor anymore, and why she thinks data people are better prepared than software engineers for a world where everyone manages a portfolio of agents. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs. Reach us at podcast@dbtlabs.com with comments and guest suggestions.
- Sep 4, 202657 min
The Roundup: The post-AI data stack, physical AI, and the fight over data centers
Four stories: The political fight over data centers, claims about a physical AI model, Ian Macomber on the shape of the post-AI data stack, and an update on the Hugging Face story and what it means for how data teams think about evals. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs. Reach us at podcast@dbtlabs.com with comments and guest suggestions.
- Aug 27, 202655 min
You can't scale vibes (Guy Podjarny)
Guy Podjarny has built developer tools three times over: Blaze (acquired by Akamai), Snyk, and now Tessl. He joins Tristan Handy to argue that skills need the same lifecycle as code or teams end up scaling nothing but vibes, and to make the case that most companies will end up owning their own harness rather than renting one from a frontier lab. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs. Reach us at podcast@dbtlabs.com with comments and guest suggestions.
- Aug 21, 202655 min
Roundup: Why your sales team shouldn't query Gong directly
Tristan Handy and Jason Ganz are back for Roundup. This time: Stripe's $7 billion acquisition of OpenRouter, two new benchmarks showing data engineering agents are reliably good now, Exponential View's latest "are we in a bubble" gauges (verdict: no, not yet), and why your sales team shouldn't query Gong directly. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs. Reach us at podcast@dbtlabs.com with comments and guest suggestions.
- Aug 13, 202658 min
Don't hand a bazooka to an agent making a sandwich (Jeremiah Lowin)
Jeremiah Lowin built FastMCP as a side project days after Anthropic announced the Model Context Protocol. It's now downloaded millions of times a day. He joins Tristan Handy on why a skill file is a polite note rather than a workflow engine, why enterprises are choosing MCP over CLIs, and why the buyers he meets aren't ready to talk about the context layer at all—they want the security plumbing first.
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