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Live debate: Should you stop using introspection in your models?

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Overview

Lightning talk · 2026

Introspective queries are one of the great blessings of the world, replacing screeds of boilerplate with an elegant abstraction.

Introspective queries are a scourge, preventing analytics engineers from building stable high-performance infrastructure.

Join Joel and Anders as they debate the pros and cons of a cheeky get_column_values() call.

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Session speakers

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  • Joel Labes

    dbt Labs
  • Anders Swanson

    dbt Labs