Understanding Databricks Compute CostsHow Databricks compute costs actually work: DBUs vs. cloud infrastructure, serverless vs. classic, and the system tables that show you where the money goes.Aug 19, 2026·23 min read
4 Blind Spots of General Coding Agents in Data EngineeringThree different experiments running Claude Code revealing four common blind spots every data engineer should be looking out for.Jul 6, 2026·10 min read
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
The Great Token Heist of ‘26The 45% AI Token Inflation That Wasn't a Price ChangeJun 1, 2026·16 min read
The Correctness LayerWe started altimate-code with one goal: build a harness that data engineers could actually trust with their pipelines and platforms. The first thing that became clear is that LLMs are the wrong tool fMay 20, 2026·19 min read
