[epistasis]

> The New Data Foundation for the Agentic Era

Look, this announcement seemed exciting, but I'm significantly less excited when I come across a completely unrelated tie-in to AI.

It breaks the illusion, and I'm reminded that it's just another PR announcement, and this is probably not going to impact my life at all in any way ever. So I'm off to the next article instead of reading any more.

[klustregrif]

What makes you say it’s unrelated? At my job currently the core bridge between AI and data goes through ChatGPT and databricks. Even before opening the article my first thought when seeing the title was “I wonder if this is useful for our AI”.

From the sound of it this is just another slight point of friction being removed and we’ll be able to run applications directly against “Postgres in databricks” with no need for ETL between the data and our business chat layer.

Nothing revolutionary, sure. But I have to admit I’m still getting used to the fact that we don’t need anyone developing analytical dashboards or designing sql queries for reports or investigations because you can just ask to get exactly the insights you want and everything gets done by AI, and this is just another step supporting that as the default desire path when building on databricks.

[epistasis]

I'm sure as hell going to be using agents to analyze all data, but that doesn't help me understand what is going on with Databricks here, and focusing on "agentic" merely adds noise to that understanding.