# Tristan Handy

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#376 Rethinking the Data Stack in the age of AI with Tristan Handy, President of Fivetran + dbt Labs

Across the data and AI industry, infrastructure that once served dashboards and human analysts is being rebuilt to serve autonomous agents instead. That shift changes what "AI-ready data" actually means, pushing teams to rethink documentation, governance, and the semantic layer so agents pull consi…

You don't have ICs anymore, you have managers (Emilie Schario)

Emilie Schario is co-founder and head of product and engineering at Kilo Code, the open-source, model-agnostic coding agent platform Anaconda acquired in July 2026. She joins Tristan Handy to talk why nobody on her 20-person engineering team is really an individual contributor anymore, and why she …

Why Write Books?

This week at dbt Summit, Tristan Handy (co-founder of dbt) asked me why I write books. It's a good question, especially today when reading is declining and any answer is seemingly at your fingertips. In this Freestyle Friday, I discuss why I write books, why they still matter, and much more. If yo…

Agents are taking over data! So what comes next? with Tristan Handy

Agents will build data infrastructure at every layer and become its primary consumers. Tristan Handy, President and Co-founder of Fivetran / dbt Labs joins Juan and Tim where we unpack the big shift that is happening: teams need to move from working in the process (picking up individual tickets) to…

TAKEAWAY - Agents are taking over data! So what comes next? with Tristan Handy

This is the takeaway episode with Tristan Handy, President and Co-founder of Fivetran / dbt Labs where he joins Juan and Tim to discuss how agents will build data infrastructure at every layer and become its primary consumers. We unpack the big shift that is happening: teams need to move from worki…

Agents are taking over data! So what comes next? with Tristan Handy

Agents will build data infrastructure at every layer and become its primary consumers. Tristan Handy, President and Co-founder of Fivetran / dbt Labs joins Juan and Tim where we unpack the big shift that is happening: teams need to move from working in the process (picking up individual tickets) to…

TAKEAWAY - Agents are taking over data! So what comes next? with Tristan Handy

This is the takeaway episode with Tristan Handy, President and Co-founder of Fivetran / dbt Labs where he joins Juan and Tim to discuss how agents will build data infrastructure at every layer and become its primary consumers. We unpack the big shift that is happening: teams need to move from worki…

Roundup: Personal agents, AI policy, GPT-6.1 Astra, and Jev decision models

Personal AI agents hit a tipping point, AI became a top voter issue, and OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra. Tristan Handy and Jason Ganz break down stories from the past few weeks and what they mean for data teams. In this episode: Personal agents: Instinct, Meta's Muse, Grokbot, and OpenAI's Dot, and …

Open data infrastructure and AI agents (George Fraser & Martin Casado)

AI agents are good at getting meaning from data, and the data stack companies have spent ten years building is the ideal source for it. Fivetran + dbt Labs CEO George Fraser, Tristan Handy, and Andreessen Horowitz general partner Martin Casado discuss why an open, composable data stack wins in a mo…

Why Analytics Engineering Is Changing Forever w/ Tristan Handy (dbt/Fivetran)

Tristan Handy (dbt/fivetran) joins me to discuss the tectonic shifts reshaping data teams, analytics engineering, and business intelligence in the age of agentic AI. Tristan opens up about stepping back into "builder mode" after years as CEO, the parallels between the dot-com era and today's AI wa…