Why it matters
Twenty years ago Aaron Stanley arrived at an emergency evidence collection for an SEC investigation and realized he had forgotten the dongle that licensed his forensic software. Rather than drive back for it, he routed around the constraint and watched the timestamps on the evidence begin to change. In a who knew what
My takeaway: AI’s Jurassic Park Period — Aaron Stanley, dbt Labs is an AI-engineering signal. The practical read is to connect the implementation pattern to reliability, data boundaries, observability, and the controls needed when AI leaves prototypes.