The user expresses concern about the longevity of manual orchestration and suggests that advanced AI agents should be capable of autonomously replicating event-driven architecture logic and iterating as complexity increases. This implies a need for AI orchestration platforms to move beyond human-defined pipelines to more self-managing, self-improving agent systems.
Some thoughts about agents and why Data Engineers are in the best spot to capitalize on tools like Claude Code... As we move more and more towards scheduled tasks, orchestrating agents, ensuring quality code by agents, you know what that sounds like to me? Everything that Data Engineers do with data, just now it becomes Agent calls. Orchestrating pipelines -> Orchestrating Agents Data Quality -> Agent Output Quality Transformations -> Agent Skills And where all of these very common data engineering methodologies turn into agent engineering methodologies, it becomes the easiest transition for Data Engineers. Who else has led event driven architectures? This time instead of a file landing in S3, it is a ticket landing in JIRA or an incoming feature request. Who is most poised at transitioning to the best AI Engineers? Data Engineers (Not written by AI, just a shower thought)