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Metadata Weekly Is Now Context and Chaos (& Cats!)

After four years and 20,000+ subscribers, Metadata Weekly is becoming Context and Chaos — the community for context engineers.
The field moved to context engineering. The name finally caught up. Context and Chaos reflects where the discipline actually is.
Everything that made this newsletter matter — community contributors, practitioner-first lens, honest takes — stays.

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Metadata Weekly Is Now Context and Chaos (& Cats!)

Practitioner Takes

BI-Ready Is Not AI-Ready

BI-Ready Is Not AI-Ready

"Your dashboards work. Your governance is solid. Your AI agent still hallucinates."

Vivek Dubey

Data & AI Leader

Gartner D&A 2026: Where the Context Layer Became a Budget Line Item

Gartner D&A 2026: Where the Context Layer Became a Budget Line Item

"Gartner's spending data, analyst predictions, and three days of floor conversations all pointed the same direction."

Tathagata Das Sarma

Data Leader

Data Governance vs AI Governance: Why It's the Wrong Battle

Data Governance vs AI Governance: Why It's the Wrong Battle

"The risk surface has expanded. The answer is one control plane, not another silo."

Charlotte Ledoux & Vivek Dubey

Data Governance Experts

OpenAI's Frontier Proves Context Matters. But It Won't Solve It.

OpenAI's Frontier Proves Context Matters. But It Won't Solve It.

Frontier validates the enterprise context thesis—yet risks accelerating AI sprawl unless organizations rethink context architecture.

Prukalpa

Co-founder, Atlan

Gartner D&A 2026: The Conversations We Should Be Having This Year

Gartner D&A 2026: The Conversations We Should Be Having This Year

"A field guide to the questions worth debating in the hallways, and a checklist you can keep on your phone."

Tathagata Das Sarma & Vivek Dubey

Data Leaders

The Context Problem Nobody's Fixing in Talk to Data Initiatives (NL > SQL)

The Context Problem Nobody's Fixing in Talk to Data Initiatives (NL > SQL)

What testing natural language-to-SQL on enterprise-scale schemas revealed about production readiness.

Manoj Shanmugasundaram

Data Engineering Leader

Semantic Layers Failed. Context Graphs Are Next… Unless We Get It Right

Semantic Layers Failed. Context Graphs Are Next… Unless We Get It Right

"Context graphs are a hot new conversation these days. And yet I feel like I've seen this story before."

Prukalpa

Co-founder, Atlan

Expert Directory

Vivek Dubey

Data & AI Leader

Prukalpa Sankar

Co-founder, Atlan

Tathagata Das Sarma

Data Leader

Charlotte Ledoux

Data Governance Expert

Manoj Shanmugasundaram

Data Engineering Leader

Vivek Dubey

Data & AI Leader

Prukalpa Sankar

Co-founder, Atlan

Tathagata Das Sarma

Data Leader

Charlotte Ledoux

Data Governance Expert

Manoj Shanmugasundaram

Data Engineering Leader

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