Don't hand a bazooka to an agent making a sandwich (Jeremiah Lowin)
The creator of FastMCP on why a skill file is a polite note, why enterprises pick MCP over CLIs, and why nobody is ready for a context layer yet.
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The internet's most useful articles on analytics engineering and its adjacent ecosystem. Curated with ❤️ by Tristan Handy.
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Roundup: a rogue agent, Kimi K3, and data teams in the AI era
We're introducing a new, recurring podcast format. Jason Ganz joins Tristan to take on stories of the day.
Data lessons from inside Meta (Shridhar Iyer)
Shridhar Iyer spent 13 years inside Meta's data organization. He joins Tristan on what big tech takes for granted, why you never delete a column at scale, and what it takes to become AI-native.
The scarce resource is consensus (Ian Macomber)
When building data artifacts is fast and cheap, the scarce resource is company-wide consensus. Ramp's Ian Macomber returns to talk about post-AI data teams.
The context engineering playbook (Claire Gouze)
nao co-founder and CEO Claire Gouze shares a practical playbook for building a context layer your agents can rely on.
DuckDB's agent moment (Jordan Tigani)
The database built for your laptop turns out to be one built for your agents. MotherDuck Founder and CEO Jordan Tigani explains why.
A Catalog Is All You Need
Last year I asked you to give Iceberg a REST. This year, it finally got one.
Hunting for Tokens. Snowflake Summit. Agent Use Cases.
Things are not quieting down for the summer, that's for sure.
I built a (very small) long running agent
What do long running agents mean for data teams?
I built a (very small) agent swarm.
What does the term 'agent swarm' mean? Is it bullshit? Can I build one?