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Semantic Patches: the Inmon/Kimball Debate of the LLM Era
Episode 58
Wednesday, 12 November, 2025
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.
