Pipes by Prompt, DAGs by Design: Why Hybrid Beats Hero Prompts
The demo is easy. The DAG is not. Pipeline automation has a wonderfully deceptive user story. A business analyst writes: “Take this customer file, clean the locations, geocode the addresses, add weather data, then save the enriched output.” An LLM replies with a Python file. The file looks plausible. There are imports. There is an Airflow DAG. There are operators. There are dependencies. A demo audience nods approvingly. ...