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# [Data Engineering in the Age of GenAI](https://ikrajsingh.hashnode.dev/data-engineering-in-the-age-of-genai?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

The tools on our desk are changing. The weight of the answer still sits with the Data Engineer.

Jul 19 · 13 min read · ikrajsingh.hashnode.dev  
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[Kartik N V J K](https://hashnode.com/@kartik-nvj)

[Jul 21](https://hashnode.com/posts/data-engineering-in-the-age-of-genai/6a5c751cfbd41eb0e41948bb/comment/6a5f81483de7a18eba619ba5)

The line about errors hiding behind clean row counts really lands, because a generated query that runs and returns a plausible number is the most dangerous kind of wrong. That undocumented business meaning is the real bottleneck, since the model has no way to know a column silently changed units two quarters ago. Have you found a lightweight way to feed that tribal context in, like a data contract or a column-level glossary the model can read?