AI generated ETL ran clean on the first try, and it took six weeks to find out what it was missing. A late Monday file, a file sent twice, a file full of zeros and mangled names all got through. The ugly old job had a rule for every one of them, and nobody had written those rules down. Now I ask AI for the failure list before I ask for any code.
100 AI Interview Questions and Answers for Data Professionals
My new book is out. It holds the 100 AI interview questions data interviewers ask now, with answers short enough to say out loud. Six of those questions are in this post, free.
Navier-Stokes Problem: What It Is and What AI Found
The Navier-Stokes problem in plain words: what the famous fluid question asks, what AI says it found, and why it is not official yet.
I Let AI Recommend SQL Server Indexes Across a Week of Queries
I let AI recommend SQL Server indexes across a week of queries, measured every number before and after, and the result was not the one I expected to write about.
Who Is Going to Do My Job Now?
Who is going to do my job now? An email asked me that at 4:41 this morning, from a man who gave sixteen years to one company and handed his laptop back.
AI Mistakes at Work: Who Never Gets Fooled
Who catches AI mistakes at work? Not the smartest person in the room. It has never once been the smartest person in the room.
AI Code Review Bottleneck: Nobody Owns It
Everybody agrees the AI code review bottleneck is real: making things got cheap, checking them did not. Then you look at the org chart, and nobody owns it.