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## Metadata
- Author: [[Benn Stancil]]
- Full Title:: Transforming Into San Diego
- Category:: #🗞️Articles
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/transforming-into-san-diego
- Read date:: [[2023-10-20]]
## Highlights
> The problems that data teams deal with aren’t likely to be solved by some fancy flourish of AI, or by a wrapper around ChatGPT. They’ll be solved by a bunch of people doing the tough legwork that’s necessary to gradually push us all forward. And the features that dbt Labs released this week are that sort of legwork.[2](https://benn.substack.com/p/transforming-into-san-diego#footnote-2) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hd7eb7j7scgj5mm59f92fmvz))
> Our careers, once inevitably important, suddenly seem more expendable ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hd7ecqk9y0zc1zdrvrzyqc4z))
> Data was moving to periphery. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hd7ed8ag99bfaq8w3c81tpde))