The Analytics Engineering Podcast

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Oct 2026

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The Analytics Engineering Podcast goes deep with the practitioners and builders leading the shift in how data work gets done. Hosted by Tristan Handy, founder and CEO of dbt Labs, each episode is a conversation with the data engineers, analytics engineers, and technical leaders building in the agentic era. Topics include data transformation, AI in analytics, data architecture, and what it means to work with data at scale. For full show notes and transcript, head to roundup.getdbt.com. To reach our team, drop a note to podcast@dbtlabs.com.

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October 15, 202636 min

Open data infrastructure and AI agents (George Fraser & Martin Casado)

AI agents are good at getting meaning from data, and the data stack companies have spent ten years building is the ideal source for it. Fivetran + dbt Labs CEO George Fraser, Tristan Handy, and Andreessen Horowitz general partner Martin Casado discuss why an open, composable data stack wins in a moment of fast change. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs. Reach us at podcast@dbtlabs.com with comments and guest suggestions.

October 9, 202654 min

Roundup: Personal agents, AI policy, GPT-6.1 Astra, and Jev decision models

Personal AI agents hit a tipping point, AI became a top voter issue, and OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra. Tristan Handy and Jason Ganz break down stories from the past few weeks and what they mean for data teams. In this episode: Personal agents: Instinct, Meta's Muse, Grokbot, and OpenAI's Dot, and why filtering information overload is the real prize. AI policy: 8% of voters now name AI their top issue, and senators ask whether recursive self-improvement should be illegal. GPT-6.1 Astra: why OpenAI canceled the release, including unsanctioned supply chain attacks in 29.2% of simulated runs. Jev: TypeSafe's decision model and how data teams can use it. Full show notes and links: https://roundup.getdbt.com Reach us at podcast@dbtlabs.com with comments and guests suggestions This episode is sponsored by dbt Labs. Discover why more than 80,000 data teams use dbt to accelerate their data development.

September 10, 202655 min

You don't have ICs anymore, you have managers (Emilie Schario)

Emilie Schario is co-founder and head of product and engineering at Kilo Code, the open-source, model-agnostic coding agent platform Anaconda acquired in July 2026. She joins Tristan Handy to talk why nobody on her 20-person engineering team is really an individual contributor anymore, and why she thinks data people are better prepared than software engineers for a world where everyone manages a portfolio of agents. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs. Reach us at podcast@dbtlabs.com with comments and guest suggestions.

September 4, 202657 min

The Roundup: The post-AI data stack, physical AI, and the fight over data centers

Four stories: The political fight over data centers, claims about a physical AI model, Ian Macomber on the shape of the post-AI data stack, and an update on the Hugging Face story and what it means for how data teams think about evals. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs. Reach us at podcast@dbtlabs.com with comments and guest suggestions.

August 27, 202655 min

You can't scale vibes (Guy Podjarny)

Guy Podjarny has built developer tools three times over: Blaze (acquired by Akamai), Snyk, and now Tessl. He joins Tristan Handy to argue that skills need the same lifecycle as code or teams end up scaling nothing but vibes, and to make the case that most companies will end up owning their own harness rather than renting one from a frontier lab. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs. Reach us at podcast@dbtlabs.com with comments and guest suggestions.

August 21, 202655 min

Roundup: Why your sales team shouldn't query Gong directly

Tristan Handy and Jason Ganz are back for Roundup. This time: Stripe's $7 billion acquisition of OpenRouter, two new benchmarks showing data engineering agents are reliably good now, Exponential View's latest "are we in a bubble" gauges (verdict: no, not yet), and why your sales team shouldn't query Gong directly. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs. Reach us at podcast@dbtlabs.com with comments and guest suggestions.

August 13, 202658 min

Don't hand a bazooka to an agent making a sandwich (Jeremiah Lowin)

Jeremiah Lowin built FastMCP as a side project days after Anthropic announced the Model Context Protocol. It's now downloaded millions of times a day. He joins Tristan Handy on why a skill file is a polite note rather than a workflow engine, why enterprises are choosing MCP over CLIs, and why the buyers he meets aren't ready to talk about the context layer at all—they want the security plumbing first.

August 6, 20261 hr 3 min

Roundup: a rogue agent, Kimi K3, and data teams in the AI era

Something new. Tristan Handy is joined by Jason Ganz for the first Roundup, a recurring conversation about the stories moving the ecosystem right now. This time: the OpenAI model that escaped its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, Moonshot's Kimi K3 and what a restrictive license on open weights really means, and Katie Bauer's read on what changes for data teams as agents arrive. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs. Reach us at podcast@dbtlabs.com with comments and guest suggestions.

July 30, 202659 min

Data lessons from inside Meta (Shridhar Iyer)

Shridhar Iyer spent more than 13 years inside Meta's data organization, most recently leading AI and the data stack. He joins Tristan Handy to talk about how deleting a single column can save millions at Meta scale, the abstraction stack that quietly powers the company, and the two steps every company needs to become AI-native. Plus a detour through the hard problem of consciousness. For full show notes and to read the podcast's companion newsletter, head to https://roundup.getdbt.com . The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.

July 16, 202650 min

The scarce resource is consensus (Ian Macomber)

The last time Ramp's Ian Macomber joined the show, the episode was titled, "Ramp's $8 billion data strategy." Ramp is now valued at $44 billion, and the data team's job has completely changed. Ian Macomber returns to talk with Tristan Handy about self-serve analytics at 50x scale, routing agents through the data lake, and why consensus is the scarce resource in a post-AI world. For full show notes and to read the podcast's companion newsletter, head to https://roundup.getdbt.com . The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.

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