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Data platform
Warehouses, transformation, testing, and the cost surfaces underneath them.
- Data platform2 min readA generated pipeline is a first draft, not autocompleteSnowflake CoCo builds a whole pipeline from one prompt. The code being easier to write is exactly why the review cannot get easier to skip.
- Data platform4 min readYour Snowflake resource monitor cannot see Cortex AI spendResource monitors track warehouse compute. Cortex AI functions bill on a separate credit type those monitors never query, and closing the gap takes two steps, not one.
- Data platform3 min readNothing in your dbt project tests what a metric meansTests, contracts, and CI gates all stop at the pipeline. The semantic layer, where revenue and active user get defined, has no equivalent, and a passing suite proves nothing about the definition.
- Data platform2 min readTest cadence is the missing dimension, not test countA freshness check proves the data looked right when CI ran. It proves nothing about the twenty-three hours afterwards, and AI-generated test suites write straight into that gap.
- Data platform2 min readBad data does not slow you down. It scales your mistakes.Teams invest in models and underinvest in the data feeding them, then wonder why outputs feel off. AI did not create the problem. It removed the human who used to catch it.