Altimate Code – Open-Source Agentic Data Engineering Harness
I'm Anand, co-founder and CTO of Altimate AI. My co-founder Pradnesh and I are open-sourcing Altimate Code. AMA. Why we built this: Pradnesh and I have been building tooling for data engineers for three years: dbt Power User and Datamates vscode extensions with combined 750k+ installs, running against real Fortune 500 data estates. The pattern we kept seeing: general-purpose agents can write SQL, but they have no model of what the SQL does. No lineage. No schema context. No understanding of what's in a dbt manifest. That's not a prompt problem; it's a missing tool layer problem. The numbers…
Altimate Code – Open-Source Agentic Data Engineering Harness launched on March 19, 2026 with 20 votes, #867 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Altimate Code is an open-source agentic data engineering tool designed for data engineers working with dbt projects. It addresses limitations in general-purpose AI agents by providing SQL generation with understanding of data lineage, schema context, and dbt manifests. The tool aims to reduce common errors in AI-generated SQL, such as references to non-existent tables and silent join failures that produce incorrect results without warnings.
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From the sources
Open-source agentic data engineering harness for dbt, SQL, and cloud warehouses. 100+ tools, 10 warehouses, AI-powered. - AltimateAI/altimate-code
In the maker’s words, at launch
I'm Anand, co-founder and CTO of Altimate AI. My co-founder Pradnesh and I are open-sourcing Altimate Code. AMA. Why we built this: Pradnesh and I have been building tooling for data engineers for three years: dbt Power User and Datamates vscode extensions with combined 750k+ installs, running against real Fortune…
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