![rw-book-cover](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6481bd81-674b-4fa0-b20f-f4d2e25f3a9d_1598x924.jpeg) ## 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))