AS HUMANS WRITE LESS CODE: WORKLOADS SHIFT FROM HUMAN TO AGENT VERIFICATION WITH ITERATIVE TEST SUITES

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As AI agents generate more SQL, transformations, and dashboards, verifying their output becomes more important than writing the code itself. What dev teams really need are compiler-style validation, layered test suites, and unified lineage across data models and BI assets. Moving assertions earlier in development could make agent-generated analytics easier to audit and less prone to semantic drift.