Explicit Measures Podcast 497: MAILBAG! Remote Fabric Jupyter & Local VSCode?
Jan 28, 2026
They dig into connecting local VS Code to remote Fabric Jupyter kernels and whether Fabric fits traditional data science workflows. They compare remote kernels, VMs, and local development trade offs. They discuss custom Fabric environments, data movement with OneLake, and how to make notebooks portable between local and remote runs.
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AI Made Mike A Music Producer
- Mike experimented with Suno to generate many usable songs and was surprised how listenable AI-produced music became.
- He created data-themed songs and family tunes, showing AI democratizes creative output for non-musicians.
AI Will Democratize Data Engineering
- AI will democratize data engineering by generating common transformation patterns and pipelines from prompts.
- That shifts emphasis from manual coding to reviewing and debugging AI-produced pipelines.
AI Lowers Bar But Raises Debugging Need
- Democratising tools risks obscuring domain knowledge needed to spot AI mistakes in pipelines.
- Developers must retain debugging skills to identify and correct subtle errors AI may introduce.