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A good convo with Shreya Shankar, a new professor (starting in 2027) at CMU on the dbt podcast about whether and how and under what circumstances data agents can really do analysis. Spoiler-alert: having clean, well-normalized tables & rich metadata helps a lot! roundup.getdbt.com/p/can-data-a...

roundup.getdbt.comCan data agents do real analysis?Carnegie Mellon Professor Shreya Shankar on why data agents fall short at real analytics work, what a semantic layer changes, and how to evaluate LLM outputs you can trust.