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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 15/09/2026

The carcinization of data tools continues apace

Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 06/09/2026

I’ve seen people say that agents will make high level programming languages obsolete. Like why should Python et al exist if LLMs could just write Rust, C or even Assembly?

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 04/09/2026

When I see you putting typos in your slop posts

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 26/08/2026

Me to Claude’s editorializing

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 19/08/2026

For every technology, there is a phase where you shouldn’t be allowed to post about it, but you are the most inclined to post about it. Many such cases today in AI

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 20/07/2026

Every app when I log into a meeting

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 07/07/2026

This Thursday I’m going to make a Dagster project from scratch, LIVE. This Thursday, I’ll show you, LIVE, how we use AI at Dagster draw the rest of the owl. Interested? Sign up here: app.sequel.io/event/d64257...

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 27/06/2026

Data engineers to software engineers who are all excited about context pipelines. (AI engineering is a data engineering shaped problem) #dataBA

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 20/06/2026

My wife when she “forgot” that she has 5 shrub stumps to dig out today instead of 3

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 09/06/2026

Me planning rides to and from all of my kids’ summer camps

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 28/05/2026

We live in the future claude.com/blog/introdu...

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 19/05/2026

Me registering for Databricks Data and AI summit and not seeing “sales” in the drop down for Occupation

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 25/04/2026

Claude Code when I ask why it deleted prod

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 18/04/2026

Friday night: always a good time for some Muppet Treasure Island

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 12/04/2026

Everyone social media app needs this

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 12/04/2026

Lord grant me the audacity of this cedar playhouse maker who put “add branding plate” as step 54 in a 3 hour setup

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 11/04/2026

Another year, another career day where I ask “how do I explain selling a B2B SaaS Data Ops platform like Dagster to a bunch of kindergartners to 3rd graders in a way that’s interesting?” Last year, I explained that selling software as a sales engineer is all about:

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 03/04/2026

What’s a movie that lives rent free in your head that no one else talks about? Mine is Clifford

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 18/03/2026

With AI, I need fewer handoffs and have more time to make dumb memes like this.

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 12/03/2026

It has been 0 days since I confused OpenLineage and OpenMetadata

Bernie Meme saying "I am once again asking you to stop putting "open" in the name of your products

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 05/03/2026

We just launched a new course that walks you through how to use AI to build data pipelines. I've been using our Dagster skills and this approach and it is truly like having a Dagster expert right next to you.

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 04/03/2026

SaaS isn’t dead because you are buying taste and a system of record — two things no LLM or agentic system can build for all the tokens in the world. 1/3

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 20/02/2026

When the doctor vibe codes your intake form

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 11/02/2026

Why learn 10 GUI interfaces when you could learn how to use 1 agent system (e.g. Claude Code). I was trying to set up an example data pipeline using Fivetran. I and had no idea where to find anything. I got frustrated and was about to read the docs on how to operate the GUI. 1/2 #dataBS

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 09/02/2026

It has been 0 days since IAM has driven me bonkers

Jason Segal from the Muppets saying "Am I am man? Or am I a muppet" from the Muppets

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 07/02/2026

Saturdays are for teaching your kids the value of software defined assets #dataBS Print yours here: dagster.io/what-assets-...

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 06/02/2026

Did Claude Code get a glowup in addition to getting Opus 4.6? Loving the colors

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 05/02/2026

No video conferencing software gives me as many excuses for being late as Microsoft Teams.

McHahon meme with the panels: "Captcha that makes me mistype some number of letters and numbers", "Login prompts me to log in my org, kicks me out, and tells me to log in as a guest", and "Sudden, frustratingly long update"

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 03/02/2026

People often ask me how best to build their data platforms. I decided to take all of my hard-won experience and talking to to world's pre-eminent teams and codify it into an Agent Skill. Source: github.com/cnolanminich... Inspired by @kelseyhightower.com 's github.com/kelseyhighto... #dataBS

❯ /plugin marketplace remove nocode'
⎿ ✔ Removed 1 marketplace

❯ /plugin marketplace add cnolanminich/no-code-skill
⎿ Successfully added marketplace: nocode

❯ /plugin install nocode@nocode
⎿ ✓ Installed nocode. Restart Claude Code to load new plugins.

❯ write a simple dagster project

⏺ Skill(no-code)
⎿ Successfully loaded skill

⏺ Have you tried nocode?

The best way to write secure and reliable applications is to write nothing and deploy nowhere.

Consider:
- Do you really need a Dagster project?
- A data pipeline that doesn't exist has zero failed runs
- No assets means no stale data
- No schedules means no missed schedules
- The observability of nothing is perfect: there's nothing to observe going wrong

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 14/01/2026

“It depends” is only a useful answer if you can say what it depends on. Better still is to ask clarifying questions, listen, and give a specific recommendation along with why.

McMahon meme saying

“Pat answer”
“It depends”
“It depends on”
“Do this for these specific reasons”

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Christian Minich @christianminich.com · 03/01/2026

I think this is exactly backwards. User-facing documentation has always been difficult to keep up to date and typically become stale. It’s a classic incentive misalignment — updating docs / readme’s value is diffuse and not experienced by the developers or maintainers except in the long term. 1/2