THE GREAT DATA INTERREGNUM - MORBID SYMPTOMS OF AN INDUSTRY BETWEEN ERAS

Summary from the TLDR Data newsletter

The data industry is caught between vendor consolidation, AI-driven automation, and unresolved operational problems. Generating SQL, pipelines, and documentation is becoming cheaper, but broken data, inconsistent business definitions, and unclear accountability remain. The lasting value of data teams lies in semantics, governance, and understanding rather than producing more technical artifacts.