Google Cloud’s data agents promise to end the 80% toil problem plaguing enterprise data teams

Data doesn’t just magically appear in the right place for enterprise analytics or AI, it has to be prepared and directed with data pipelines. That’s the domain of data engineering and it has long been one of the most thankless and tedious tasks that enterprises need to deal with.

Today, Google Cloud is taking direct aim at the tedium of data preparation with the launch of a series of AI agents. The new agents span the entire data lifecycle. The Data Engineering Agent in BigQuery automates complex pipeline creation through natural language commands. A Data Science Agent transforms notebooks into intelligent workspaces that can autonomously perform machine learning workflows. The enhanced Conversational Analytics Agent now includes a Code Interpreter that handles advanced Python analytics for business users.

“When I think about who is doing data engineering today, it’s not ...