Software engineers' new job isn't writing code — it's designing the
If you look at the commit histories of modern data platforms, something profound has shifted over the last two years. With Cursor, Claude Code, and agentic…
Summary
If you look at the commit histories of modern data platforms, something profound has shifted over the last two years. With Cursor, Claude Code, and agentic workflows now living inside our Docker containers and IDEs, generating the first implementation of a distributed streaming pipeline or a complex API integration is no longer the central bottleneck. Agents can navigate repositories, write test coverage, inspect stack traces, and propose refactors. Describe a Kafka-to-Iceberg sink mapping in plain English, and an agent can produce a credible starting point before the engineer has opened every relevant file.
Positives
- Describe a Kafka-to-Iceberg sink mapping in plain English, and an agent can produce a credible starting point before the engineer has opened every relevant file.
Risks & concerns
- The article may not provide enough evidence to validate every implication.
- Execution, cost, adoption, regulation, or security could change the outcome.