dbt Semantic Layer for AI Agent Querying
Nadia Kaur
AI agents can't fill in the meaning that human analysts guess from context.
Most AI projects fail because enterprises built data systems for humans, not agents.
Data governance, not algorithms, determines whether enterprise AI actually works in production.
Mesh restructures who owns data; fabric streamlines how to access it across existing systems.
AI agents need data foundations designed for them, not dashboards retrofitted with retrieval layers.
Stale or missing metadata makes AI agents generate confident wrong answers with no warning signal.
Joined data creates new risks that field-level controls cannot detect or prevent.