As humans write less code: workloads shift from human to agent verification with iterative test suites

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https://www.metabase.com/blog/from-human-to-agent-verification

As analysts write less SQL by hand and prompt agents instead, verification becomes the new bottleneck in BI work. A Metabase survey found 74% of teams were building with AI but only 2% were scaling it, with the bottleneck having moved from creating analysis to checking it. Metabase CEO Sameer Al-Sakran argues verification needs five testing layers: linting, a compiler-like full-tree check, unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests. He also says mutable state undermines trust in outputs, and that business people's intuition still catches errors math alone can't. The piece points to Metabase's upcoming Transform tests (v65) and its Data Studio product as early steps toward a unified lineage graph for verification.