Josh Wills
Member of technical staff at Datology AI focused on data curation and foundation-model training, with a 25-year career in data engineering including roles at Cloudera and Slack and contributions to dbt and DuckDB.
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May 7, 2026 • 55min
AI Agents Can't Fix Data - Josh Wills on Where AI Breaks in Data Engineering
Josh Wills, a 25-year data engineering veteran now at Datology AI who helped build tools like dbt and DuckDB. He talks about why AI agents misdiagnose messy pipelines, the rise of petabyte-scale multimodal datasets, fragile $200K vibe-coded pipelines with no training data, the enduring role for classical ML, and why managing unreliable agents is now part of the job.
