The Analytics Engineering Roundup

Our Jurassic Park Future

Episode 1, where we find our feet and have some fun.

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October 2026

dbt Charts: The Markdown of dashboards

Dave Fowler on why AI-generated dashboards should be a spec you can audit, whether AI makes dimensional modeling less necessary, and where dashboards go…

Oct 30 • Dan Poppy

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Can data agents do real analysis?

Carnegie Mellon Professor Shreya Shankar on why data agents fall short at real analytics work, what a semantic layer changes, and how to evaluate LLM…

Oct 23 • Dan Poppy

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Open Data Infrastructure in the age of AI agents

George Fraser, Tristan Handy, and A16z’s Martin Casado on why companies are building their own AI analysts, why connecting agents straight to SaaS tools…

Oct 15 • Dan Poppy

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

The political fight over data centers, the shape of the post-AI data stack, claims of physical AI, and an update on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident.

Oct 9 • Dan Poppy

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September 2026

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

The co-founder of Kilo Code, acquired by Anaconda this summer, on why she thinks data people are better positioned than software engineers to manage a…

Sep 10 • Dan Poppy

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

The political fight over data centers, the shape of the post-AI data stack, claims of physical AI, and an update on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident.

Sep 4 • Dan Poppy

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August 2026

You can't scale vibes (Guy Podjarny)

The co-founder of Tessl on why skills need the same lifecycle as code and why most companies will end up owning their own harness instead of renting…

Aug 27 • Dan Poppy

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

Tristan is joined again by Jason Ganz. This time: Stripe's $7 billion acquisition of OpenRouter, the AI bubble, new benchmarks that say data engineering…

Aug 21 • Dan Poppy

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

The creator of FastMCP on why a skill file is a polite note, why enterprises pick MCP over CLIs, and why nobody is ready for a context layer yet.

Aug 13 • Dan Poppy

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

We're introducing a new, recurring podcast format. Jason Ganz joins Tristan to take on stories of the day.

Aug 6 • Dan Poppy

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July 2026

Data lessons from inside Meta (Shridhar Iyer)

Shridhar Iyer spent 13 years inside Meta's data organization. He joins Tristan on what big tech takes for granted, why you never delete a column at…

Jul 30 • Dan Poppy

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