Semantic Patches: the Inmon/Kimball Debate of the LLM Era
Update: 2025-11-13
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Data management purity and pragmatism built opposed camps starting in the 1990s, and echoes of those tenants present themselves today in Generative AI. Ontology purists and vector-based engineers appear at opposite ends, but how might we reframe so everyone's in the same picture? Tracy Talbot is a consummate data practitioner and has seen it all—from mainframes to machine learning. In this episode, she sits down with Sid Atkinson to reveal how the age-old Kimball vs. Inman debates mirror today’s AI struggles—and why her concept of “semantic patches” could be the key to keeping generative AI grounded in reality.
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