Deeply Unsexy: SQL's Redemption Arc — with Tristan Handy

dbt Labs CEO Tristan Handy drops into The Test Set to map the fault lines between the data science world and the enterprise data world — and explain why analytics engineers are basically pissed-off data analysts who decided to organize the bookshelf. We get into SQL's glow-up, the community magic of dbt Slack, what AI agents mean for data warehouses, and why everyone's building iOS apps with Claude now.

What's inside:

• What analytics engineers *actually* do
• SQL's journey from deeply unsexy to indispensable
• How dbt turned source control into a source of truth
• Building a tech community without the RTFM energy
• AI agents on your data lake: permissions get personal
• Will LLMs kill the open-source package ecosystem?
• Edible gardening, welding dreams, and digital dysphoria