The Seductive Lie of AI ETL: Why ‘Just Ask in English’ Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen
AI ETL promises to replace complex SQL with plain English. But that shift from deterministic code to probabilistic outputs introduces a hidden risk: you now have to audit a confident black box instead of writing clear logic. One hallucinated column name can corrupt a production database. The real work isn’t eliminated—it’s just moved to a harder place.