AI-Augmented Data Engineering, with Maksym Karashchuk

A data architect who builds agents every week gives an honest read on what AI is doing to the data engineering job. The job is not disappearing but it is shifting: from writing code by hand to curating the rules, skills, and knowledge base that agents run on. As the LLMs are becoming commodity, the bottleneck in 2026 transitions form being a top model quality to the correctly built processes.