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We built AI that actually works for data engineering. We crushed the ADE benchmark.
tl;dr : Today, we are launching Altimate Code, an open-source agentic data engineering harness that far exceeds generic LLMs (and …
Teaching Claude Code the Art of Data Engineering: Introducing Altimate Skills
Today, we're open-sourcing Altimate Skills — a collection of Claude Code skills specifically designed for analytics engineers. We …
Adaptive Compute vs. Auto Tune: A Practical Guide to Optimizing Snowflake Warehouses
Managing Snowflake warehouses efficiently is a constant balancing act. Set them too large, and you're burning money on idle comput…
Supercharging Cursor IDE: How the dbt Power User Extension’s Embedded MCP Server Unlocks AI-Driven dbt Development
Introduction We’re excited to announce a major new capability in the dbt Power User VSCode extension: an embedded Model Context Pr…
Could AI Teammates Be the Secret to Efficient Snowflake Cost Management?
In the past five years, Snowflake has disrupted the database, data storage, and analytics industry by massively simplifying the en…
Write Better Data Docs Faster
Once upon a time, an analyst in the trouble Imagine Leila, an analyst, asked to build a monitoring dashboard for finance - given a…
Can AI Agents reduce Snowflake Cost using Dynamic Tables?
In my previous article on Dynamic Tables, I explained their purpose, to help simplify building transformation pipelines for either…
How I Cut dbt Development Time by 20% with the Power User Vscode Extension
Working with data in any capacity—be it as a data/analytics engineer, data scientist, or data analyst—inevitably dealing with the …