That's no longer the default.

Google just shipped the Data Engineering Agent for BigQuery – and it's in GA right now.

Here's what it actually does:

  • You describe the pipeline in plain language
  • The agent generates the full spec – you review, adjust, approve
  • It builds the pipeline code, handles transformations, sets up the DAG
  • If something breaks, it troubleshoots and fixes it too

No boilerplate. No back-and-forth between business requirements and engineering tickets.

The data engineer's job doesn't disappear – it moves upstream. Less time writing glue code, more time making architectural decisions that actually matter.

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