Re:Data engineering and software engineering are converging
by majormajor on Saturday August 30, 2025 @12:33AM
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The "write SQL for ETLs all day" job is a risky one right now since LLMs really lower the barrier for dealing with gnarly SQL. So it's still not a bad time to have your resume be as clear as possible that you're the "deals with complex distributed systems" SWE type instead.
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Re:Data engineering and software engineering are converging
by mrugge on Saturday August 30, 2025 @01:03AM
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That's more of an analytics engineer role. LLMs lower the barrier to entry, but popular SQL queries are about correctness and flexibility and this often requires deep understanding and ownership of each filter and window function. This lower barrier can quickly can turn into enough rope to hang yourself.