<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>AI-Assisted Data Engineering on philliant</title><link>https://philliant.com/writings/ai-assisted-data-engineering/</link><description>Recent content in AI-Assisted Data Engineering on philliant</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><copyright>© 2026 philip mathew hern</copyright><atom:link href="https://philliant.com/writings/ai-assisted-data-engineering/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Preface</title><link>https://philliant.com/writings/ai-assisted-data-engineering/00-preface/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://philliant.com/writings/ai-assisted-data-engineering/00-preface/</guid><description>&lt;h2 class="relative group"&gt;What this book is
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&lt;p&gt;This is a practical account of how I actually work with AI agents as a data engineer, written so I can hold myself to it and so anyone doing similar work can borrow what fits. It is not a survey of every tool, and it is not a promise that the machine will do the thinking for you. It is a record of the habits, the setup, and the guardrails that let me hand real work to an agent and still stand behind what ships.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Why AI Rests on Earned Judgment</title><link>https://philliant.com/writings/ai-assisted-data-engineering/01-why-ai-rests-on-earned-judgment/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://philliant.com/writings/ai-assisted-data-engineering/01-why-ai-rests-on-earned-judgment/</guid><description>&lt;h2 class="relative group"&gt;Introduction
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&lt;p&gt;AI only makes sense as a tool once you have already been through the cognitive struggle yourself. The struggle is not the obstacle to learning, it is the learning, and it is the only thing that lets you judge what a model hands back instead of accepting it blindly.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>