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DAWhat’s the best LLM for data engineers right now?
Someone asked this on the Databricks subreddit recently, and the most-upvoted answer was basically: the Databricks AI Dev Kit.
Because it’s not really about ‘model X or model Y it’s about giving your LLM the right tools. The AI Dev Kit hooks up Cursor, Claude Code or whatever you’re using, with Databricks-native context and an MCP server, so it can actually help you build real Databricks stuff: pipelines, jobs, Unity Catalog assets, dashboards .
But here’s the problem: that’s build-time.
The thing that ruins your life is run-time.
Your job isn’t failing because you wrote Python wrong. It’s failing because Spark decided to do a 4TB shuffle, one key is 90% of the data, and now your executors are dropping from OOM.
And also… the AI Dev Kit is for Databricks. Awesome if you’re all-in there.
But what about teams on EMR, Kubernetes, or Dataproc?
That’s where DataFlint fits.
DataFlint’s agentic copilot pulls in production context, Spark logs, and metrics with plans, stages, shuffles, and failures. So those problems can be fixed seamlessly and proactively, and it works across all Spark platforms
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