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AI-Assisted Data Engineering

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About This Book
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AI-Assisted Data Engineering is a working playbook for using AI agents to build and maintain real data products without losing control of them. It is written for the engineer who already knows the craft and wants to move faster without trading away the judgment, the guardrails, and the ownership that make the work trustworthy.

The argument running through every chapter is simple. AI accelerates execution for people who have already done the cognitive work, and it does so safely only when the dangerous moves are gated by design rather than by good intentions. Speed with lane discipline.

The book moves in that order on purpose, from judgment to setup to guardrails to applied data-engineering craft, and finally to the pace needed to keep the practice sustainable. Each part adds one layer to the same working system rather than starting a separate argument.

Chapters are published here one at a time. Start with the preface for what the book is and who it is for, then read in order or jump to whatever part is most useful to you right now.