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The Analytics Engineering Podcast

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. For full show notes and transcript, head to roundup.getdbt.com. To reach our team, drop a note to podcast@dbtlabs.com.

Website ↗ Last published 30 October 2026 101 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on The Analytics Engineering Podcast

“Having something that is agent-writable and human-reviewable is actually not a super easy design constraint to satisfy. I have spoken to folks on data teams who have gone so far down the rabbit hole of having agents write all of their code that they've lost the ability to review it. Otherwise the conversation is, 'Are you sure this is correct?' And I cannot tell you on my own authority that it's correct. I'm going to turn around to my agent and ask it that question, and then I'm going to have to rely on its answer.” — Tristan Handy, The Analytics Engineering Podcast
Tristan Handy · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I think the biggest threat for SaaS companies out there is this artifact space. It makes custom UIs, custom interfaces, custom reports. Do you go into Salesforce anymore? You just say, 'What are the top five people I should call this week?' And the AI just tells you. And that's your interface more and more.” — Dave Fowler, The Analytics Engineering Podcast
Dave Fowler · 30 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Imagine if you had to do EDA and you had no pandas functions or you had none of these like df.summary or df.visualize. What would you do? You would literally load up the table in Excel and you would look row by row … But that's the analog of how we're working today, right? We look at a spreadsheet of LLM outputs and we look row by row and we hope and pray for the best.” — Shreya Shankar, The Analytics Engineering Podcast
Shreya Shankar · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I actually tell people now, just don't use AI to write emails and you will get noticed. Like, it's never been easier to get a job or to get noticed now because all you have to do is not use AI. I think it's kind of ironic.” — Shreya Shankar, The Analytics Engineering Podcast
Shreya Shankar · 23 Oct 2026 Listen →
“So much of that is because they have to go through steps. They have to put in wait queues. They have to rate limit because it's actually expensive to provide support. So just to be clear, I think it's a false dichotomy of like AI versus human. I think it's AI versus rate limited human with too much supply, which causes live lock in the system, which is why support sucks.” — Martin Casado, The Analytics Engineering Podcast
Martin Casado · 15 Oct 2026 Listen →
“…benchmarks become the environment that these models are evolving inside of.” — Tristan Handy, The Analytics Engineering Podcast
Tristan Handy · 21 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Analytics Engineering Podcast is hosted by Tristan Handy , Julia Schottenstein and Dan Poppy .

Recent Episodes

  1. 30 Oct 2026

    dbt Charts: The Markdown of dashboards

    With Dave Fowler

  2. 23 Oct 2026

    Can data agents do real analysis?

    With Shreya Shankar

  3. 15 Oct 2026

    Open data infrastructure and AI agents (George Fraser & Martin Casado)

    With George Fraser and Martin Casado

  4. 9 Oct 2026

    Roundup: Personal agents, AI policy, GPT-6.1 Astra, and Jev decision models

    With Jason Ganz

  5. 10 Sep 2026

    You don't have ICs anymore, you have managers (Emilie Schario)

    With Emilie Schario

  6. 4 Sep 2026

    The Roundup: The post-AI data stack, physical AI, and the fight over data centers

    With Jason Ganz

  7. 27 Aug 2026

    You can't scale vibes (Guy Podjarny)

    With Guy Podjarny

  8. 21 Aug 2026

    Roundup: Why your sales team shouldn't query Gong directly

    With Jason Ganz

  9. 13 Aug 2026

    Don't hand a bazooka to an agent making a sandwich (Jeremiah Lowin)

    With Jeremiah Lowin

  10. 6 Aug 2026

    Roundup: a rogue agent, Kimi K3, and data teams in the AI era

    With Jason Ganz

  11. 30 Jul 2026

    Data lessons from inside Meta (Shridhar Iyer)

    With Shridhar Iyer

  12. 16 Jul 2026

    The scarce resource is consensus (Ian Macomber)

    With Ian Macomber

Guests

Jason Ganz (4 episodes), Benn Stancil (3 episodes), Drew Banin (2 episodes), David Jayatillake (2 episodes), Emilie Schario (2 episodes), Jennifer Li (2 episodes), Martin Casado (2 episodes), Ian Macomber (2 episodes), Jordan Tigani (2 episodes), Erik Bernhardsson (2 episodes), Brian Amadio , Matt Turck , and 90 more.