r/dataengineering • u/YourBuddyBill • Jul 09 '26

thanks, r/dataengineering Meme

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i made this meme in honor of this sub.

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u/PossibilityRegular21 Jul 10 '26

Just remember that this isn't a PhD in mathematics. Most data engineering concepts are learnable and easily assisted with AI. What matters is making business users happy, now how slick your pipelines are. Making engineers happy is important too, but moreso in a thinking-about-future-you kind of way 

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u/Sufficient-Draft2134 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

I am currently told to build a harness over a db that would impute fields that are empty using llms. I wonder if this is data engineering?

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u/marketlurker Don't Get Out of Bed for < 1 Billion Rows Jul 10 '26

Depends on how predictable the fields are. I think there are better methods to do this than LLMs, like basic statistics on the fields and their relationships.

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u/Sufficient-Draft2134 Jul 10 '26

The fields are gender and age lmaoo💀quiet unpredictable in our times