Bridging Code-First and Metadata-First Approaches For many teams, dbt is the modern data stack. It provides: Clean SQL-based transformations Dependency graphs Tests and documentation Developer-friendly workflows It has raised the quality bar across the industry. So if dbt works — why introduce something like MDDE? The answer is not replacement. It’s enrichment. dbt is unapologetically code-first. Models are defined as SQL files. Structure is inferred. Documentation and tests are attached via YAML. It works beautifully...