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title: A data engineering agent in practice
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  own mistakes and generated quality checks from plain language. Self-correction was
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# Overview

An experimental agent built pipelines, changed schemas, reverted its own mistakes and generated quality checks from plain language. Self-correction was the part that mattered.[^s1]

# Read the original

The full note is on muthub.org: [A data engineering agent in practice](https://muthub.org/writing/bigquery-data-engineering-agent).

[^s1]: A data engineering agent in practice, muthub.org, 2025-07-02.