AGAnand Guptainblog.altimate.ai·Aug 2 · 11 min readPower User for dbt Can Now Tell You Why Your Model Is SlowThe queries that cost you money usually aren't the ones anyone complains about. A dbt model ships to prod looking fine, then scans ten times the data it needs on every scheduled run for the next six m31T
SSSimon Spätiinblog.altimate.ai·Jun 29 · 13 min readWhere AI Agents Belong in Data Engineering: The Correctness LayerWith ever-changing models, new and better ones coming out every few months, it's great if we don't have to rely on them too heavily. The better your tooling, the less dependent you become on any singl69SJNM
SISurya Iyerinblog.altimate.ai·Jun 1 · 16 min readThe Great Token Heist of ‘26Your LLM provider charges by the token, but a token is not a portable unit of work, a unit of meaning, or any unit you can compare across vendors. It only has meaning inside one vendor's system and lo00
AGAnand Guptainblog.altimate.ai·Mar 19 · 6 min readWe built AI that actually works for data engineering. We crushed the ADE benchmark.tl;dr : Today, we are launching Altimate Code, an open-source agentic data engineering harness that far exceeds generic LLMs (and other leading models) on data engineering tasks. Check out the project40
AGAnand Guptainblog.altimate.ai·Jan 22 · 13 min readTeaching Claude Code the Art of Data Engineering: Introducing Altimate SkillsToday, we're open-sourcing Altimate Skills — a collection of Claude Code skills specifically designed for analytics engineers. We are starting with skills for dbt and Snowflake. These encode the workf00
DVDana Van Akeninblog.altimate.ai·Jul 30, 2025 · 13 min readAdaptive Compute vs. Auto Tune: A Practical Guide to Optimizing Snowflake WarehousesManaging Snowflake warehouses efficiently is a constant balancing act. Set them too large, and you're burning money on idle compute. Too small, and your queries slow to a crawl, frustrating users and 00
AGAnand Guptainblog.altimate.ai·Mar 21, 2025 · 20 min readSupercharging Cursor IDE: How the dbt Power User Extension’s Embedded MCP Server Unlocks AI-Driven dbt DevelopmentIntroduction We’re excited to announce a major new capability in the dbt Power User VSCode extension: an embedded Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. This MCP server is now built directly into the ex00
TSThomas Schmidtinblog.altimate.ai·Sep 19, 2024 · 6 min readWrite Better Data Docs FasterOnce upon a time, an analyst in the trouble Imagine Leila, an analyst, asked to build a monitoring dashboard for finance - given a tight deadline. While searching for a useful dataset, she comes acros00
