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Over the past decade, the core evolution of data engineering has been the deconstruction and reconstruction of traditional data warehouse architectures through the Modern Data Stack. We separated data ingestion from databases, forming the Data Ingestion layer, using tools like FiveTran, Airbyte, and Apache SeaTunnel to solve ELT / CDC / Reverse ETL problems; We separated compute from storage, forming cloud data warehouse and lakehouse systems such as Snowflake, Databricks, Iceberg, and Hive; We separated orchestration from scripts, leading to orchestration systems like Apache Airflow and Apache DolphinScheduler; SQL development, data modeling, lineage, data quality, BI, and AI analytics were further split into independent tools. This architecture was undoubtedly progress. It moved data engineering away from the primitive era of “a bunch of scripts + Crontab” toward cloud-native infrastructure, elastic computing, engineering governance, and open ecosystems. The greatest contribution of the Modern Data Stack was “decoupling,” and its biggest side effect was also “decoupling.” Tools became more powerful, but data engineers were forced to switch between more systems than ever before: datasources in one place, synchronization configs in another, DAGs somewhere else, logs elsewhere, SQL stored in Git, and Snowflake / Iceberg / cloud warehouse execution results living in yet another environment. As a result, many data engineers spend less time on data modeling, business understanding, metric definitions, architecture design, and cost optimization — and far more time configuring datasources, setting field mappings, dragging DAG nodes, modifying SQL, checking logs, and rerunning tasks. This is the hidden pain created by the Modern Data Stack: data engineers became trapped inside tools. The emergence of engineering-focused AI systems like Codex and Claude Code is now changing the entire software engineering workflow. But how can data engineers truly achieve Vibe Coding? That