Post by reeeliance

Gartner put a number on it at the summit in London (edition 2026): AI agents will automate up to 75% of data engineering workflows by 2029. That's an opportunity, not a warning. It means data engineers get to stop spending time on repetitive, automatable work and start spending it on what actually requires human expertise. The shift: from writing code to designing systems. From building pipelines to defining the data contracts and semantic models that pipelines run themselves against. From individual contributor to knowledge engineer. And here's the best part: the skills that matter most in this transition are exactly what experienced engineers already have. Deep domain knowledge. Strong requirements engineering. Understanding how the business actually uses data. These don't get automated. They become the foundation everything else runs on. #DataEngineering #KnowledgeEngineering #DataStrategy #reeeliance