HeyJaredThe Analytics Engineering Roundup
The internet's most useful articles on analytics engineering and its adjacent ecosystem. Curated with ❤️ by Tristan Handy.
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You don't have ICs anymore, you have managers (Emilie Schario) (opens the original)
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Emilie Schario is co-founder and head of product and engineering at Kilo Code, the open-source, model-agnostic coding agent platform that Anaconda acquired in July 2026. She was an early member of GitLab’s data team, ran the data org at Netlify, spent a year as data-strategist-in-residence at Amplify Partners, and founded Turbine, an ERP startup later acquired by Settle.In her conversation with Tristan, Emilie describes “kilo speed,” the cultural discipline Kilo built around removing friction so
Roundup: The post-AI data stack, physical AI, and the fight over data centers (opens the original)
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Four stories this time: a new company called Accelerated Understanding and its claims about a model that simulates physical reality; the political fight over data center construction; Ian Macomber’s widely shared post on the shape of the post-AI data stack; and an update on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident, including new reporting on chain of thought monitoring. Quick note: This episode was recorded before NVIDIA’s acquisition of Hugging Face was announced. Tristan and Jason are doing a live ver
You can't scale vibes (Guy Podjarny) (opens the original)
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Guy Podjarny is the co-founder of Tessl. Before that he founded Blaze, a web performance company acquired by Akamai in 2012, and Snyk, a developer-first security company.In his conversation with Tristan, Guy shares his model for how agentic development works. Models are the new operating system. Tools let agents act in the world. Context, the thing developers actually write and maintain, is what Guy argues is the new code. All of it is wrapped in a harness that sets the UX, the constraints, and
Roundup: Why your sales team shouldn't query Gong directly (opens the original)
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This is episode two of the Roundup, a recurring conversation between Tristan Handy and Jason Ganz to cover data and AI news at the speed it moves. Four stories this time: 1) whether the AI buildout is a bubble; 2) what two new benchmarks say about how good agents have gotten at data engineering work; 3) why Stripe just paid $7 billion for an AI model router; 4) and how dbt can turn Gong data into something an agent can use without burning through the budget.dbt Summit 2026 is almost here. Connec
Don't hand a bazooka to an agent making a sandwich (Jeremiah Lowin) (opens the original)
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Jeremiah Lowin is the founder and CEO of Prefect, and the creator of FastMCP. Jeremiah published earlier this year, A new dawn for Prefect, about a mission that has expanded from data pipelines to distributed systems to autonomous agents. Tristan asks a reasonable follow-up: What the hell is going on?The answer starts with an accident. Jeremiah wrote FastMCP as a side project a few days after Anthropic introduced the Model Context Protocol. He posted it to Hacker News and Reddit, with roughly th
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