Eugene Meidinger

Eugene Meidinger

@sqlgene.com

Data training for busy people.

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Darling Data
@erikdarling.com

a reasonable test of confidence: if someone tells you that something is safe to drop or delete, ask them to do it.

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Den
@den.dev

Not exactly a great week for the "HTTPS lock means it's safe" guideline.

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Dare Obasanjo
@carnage4life.bsky.social

The chickens are coming home to roost after decades of the software industry treating security as an afterthought. Anthropic’s warnings of a software security apocalypse from AI models like Mythos now seem less like hype and more like sober warnings.

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Ethan Mollick
@emollick.bsky.social

Companies I talk to are struggling with the rate of patches they need to do thanks to AI defenses finding issues before the coming wave of incoming cyberattacks by other AIs. Now consumers are going to have the same experience of getting everything updated often & fast. openai.com/index/coordi...

openai.comPatch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover critical vulnerabilitiesPatch the Planet connects security researchers, maintainers, and incident responders to help address critical vulnerabilities across open source.

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Andy Cutler
@andycutler.bsky.social

Right keep me honest here…small to medium sized data processing workloads (few MB to a few GBs) work very well using Python notebooks with Polars and Delta-rs? I’m writing loads of 1GB files to a lakehouse and it’s very quick…far quicker than Spark

Eugene Meidinger
@sqlgene.com

Thanks to Microsoft and AMD for being a global sponsor for #DayOfData Pittsburgh. They were our biggest sponsor, and we could not have put on our event without them. We are truly grateful.

Eugene Meidinger
@sqlgene.com

Thank you so much to all of the speakers, volunteers, and attendees that came out for Day of Data Pittsburgh and made it possible. Also, thank you to our sponsors, Microsoft & AMD, Kocovo, and SQL Gene Training. We couldn’t do it without you.

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Brent Ozar
@brento.bsky.social

Replying to @sqlgene.com

YES. I don’t know where a safe fortress is in tech right now, other than being a founder, building something for nontechnical people, and even that is really sketchy.

Eugene Meidinger
@sqlgene.com

Accurate

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

Revisiting an old analogy; AI will do to software what the internet did to journalism. We’ll get 10x more software. More apps, agents and niche tools but fewer profitable software companies and fewer full-time developers. Software becomes abundant but the economics of software gets brutal.

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John Kerski
@jkerski.bsky.social

I wrote about code coverage for Power BI semantic models years ago. It was arduous then. Today, Power BI Project files, UDFs, and AI make it much more practical. The latest pql-test release introduces pql-test code-coverage. Feedback welcome: blog.kerski.tech/code-coverag...

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Brent Ozar
@brento.bsky.social

When You Work with AI, You’re a Middle Manager. I got my start in hotels & restaurants, worked my way up to being a hotel general manager, before switching into tech. I've been a solo contributor, a team member, a manager, and an outside consultant, at companies big & small. If you're reading…

brentozar.comWhen You Work with AI, You’re a Middle Manager.I got my start in hotels & restaurants, worked my way up to being a hotel general manager, before switching into tech. I've been a solo contributor, a team member, a manager, and an outside consultant, at companies big & small. If you're reading this, you're probably used to working in tech with your hands. You've designed, built, and fixed stuff yourself.
Eugene Meidinger
@sqlgene.com

In person is *preferred* but we hope to do virtual sessions in-between. I am available for speaker mentoring for any new speakers local to the Pittsburgh area. 2/2

Eugene Meidinger
@sqlgene.com

It hurts because it's true.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

Enterprise software companies had a short-lived run where they competed on usability and product-led growth which seems to be over. Now every SaaS app seems to be converging on the same UX monstrosity, complete with AI features of dubious value.

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Meagan
@mmarie.bsky.social

Challenges and Opportunities in Using AI for Power BI Report Development at Visual Studio Magazine visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/202...

visualstudiomagazine.comChallenges and Opportunities in Using AI for Power BI Report Development -- Visual Studio MagazineAI can increasingly build pieces of a Power BI report, but creating reports that actually work for their intended users still requires human judgment. Data Analytics Architect Meagan Longoria explains...
Eugene Meidinger
@sqlgene.com

On the one hand AI has saturated my benchmarks for simple, unambiguous DAX questions. On the other hand, don't turn off your brain.

Eugene Meidinger
@sqlgene.com

I think a lot of folks will move to value pricing. I think a lot will be expected to do more work in the same time and will drown.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

AI is killing the billable hour. Charging clients for “hours” of research and document drafting that obviously took far less time with AI is unsustainable. It’ll be interesting to see which professions can successfully move to flat rates or outcome-based billing without losing revenue.