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Treat your data pipelines like code, because your agents already do | MotherDuck's Jordan Tigani
Your data warehouse still thinks a human is on the other end of the query. That's a problem MotherDuck CEO and co-founder Jordan Tigani knows from the inside, having spent years as a founding engineer on Google BigQuery. This week on Dev Interrupted, he joins Andrew to make the case that one warehouse per agent beats the distributed systems he used to work on. He lays out Watertown, his riff on Steve Yegge's Gastown that recasts the data engineer as the manager of a fleet of agents, and walks through how MotherDuck's Flights, Dives, and just-launched Guides keep pipelines...
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Welcome back to Dev Interrupted, brought to you by Linear B. My guest today is Jordan Tagani, co-founder and CEO of Motherduck and founding engineer on Google BigQuery. He used to write more SQL than anyone at his company, and now, like so many of us, he can't remember the last time he wrote a query. We covered Stevie I.K.'s Gastown here on the show, and Jordan wrote the data version.
Jordan wrote the data version. He calls it Watertown, where a data engineer manages a fleet of agents. Those agents write the pipelines and the visualizations
from a prompt. And Jordan's point is that the cost lands downstream, in review and in catching what breaks. His answer is to treat all of it like code, which
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