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Ghost Skills: Teaching AI Agents to Think Like Data Engineers

Another week, another skills repo on the GitHub trending page. I know. There are roughly seventeen of them now, all promising to turn your AI coding agent from a confident intern into a slightly-less-confident intern. Most of them are great. Most of them are also built by solo devs, for solo devs, on solo-dev codebases that fit comfortably in a context window. Which is fine, if that’s your world. Less fine if your world involves a Snowflake warehouse with four tables that could be the source of truth for “customer”, an SCD2 someone half-built in 2021 and quietly walked away from, and a dbt project where stg_users_final_v3_actually_use_this is, somehow, the one you’re meant to use. (Don’t laugh. You’ve seen worse.)

  • AI Agents
  • Claude Code
  • dbt
  • Data Modelling
  • Dimensional Modelling
  • Data Quality
  • Open Source
  • Snowflake
Sunday, June 14, 2026 Read
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dbt Fusion: The Engine Upgrade That's Got Everyone Talking

When Your Favourite Tool Gets a Makeover You know that feeling when your favourite app suddenly changes its interface? That mix of excitement and anxiety about whether the changes will actually improve your workflow or just mess with muscle memory you’ve spent years building. That’s exactly what happened when dbt Labs dropped dbt Fusion on the analytics engineering community. The reactions were… let’s call them passionate. Some folks were celebrating like they’d just discovered fire, while others were questioning whether this marked the beginning of the end for open-source dbt.

  • dbt
  • Data Engineering
  • Analytics Engineering
  • Open Source
  • Development Tools
  • SQL
  • Data Modelling
Saturday, June 21, 2025 Read