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Why AI Agents Break in Production: The Missing Harness in Your Data StackPradnesh Patil joins Data Science with Sam to discuss why AI agents get SQL queries wrong, and the five-part harness that fixes it.Jul 15, 2026·7 min read
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Where AI Agents Belong in Data Engineering: The Correctness LayerA deterministic harness for reproducible, cacheable results — sitting between a probabilistic agent on top and a deterministic core underneath.Jun 29, 2026·13 min read
You Are the Trust Layer: Why AI Code Review Is Breaking DownYou stopped writing code this year. Now you approve it, faster than you can possibly check. Here is what that costs.Jun 15, 2026·5 min read
DeepSeek Cost 62% Less Than Claude. The Surprising Part Wasn't the Savings…If you're running an AI agent on data (pipeline diagnostics, schema exploration, ad-hoc SQL, lineage queries), you've looked at the model bill and asked the same question we did: "The cheaper model oJun 10, 2026·15 min read
