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AI is relearning everything databases already knew

June 26, 202647:44

Hosted by Mehdi Ouazza, Jacob Matson · With Stephanie Wang (Staff Engineer, MongoDB (ex-MotherDuck))

AI is moving inside the database, and it's hitting the same problems databases already solved. Stephanie Wang (staff engineer at MongoDB, ex-MotherDuck founding engineer) joins Mehdi and Jacob to unpack Snowflake's Cortex AISQL, why AI inside SQL is really a query-optimization and cost problem, the compute crunch pushing RAM and inference prices up, multi-agent systems and model routing, and going slow to go fast when you build with AI.

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AI is relearning everything databases already knew cover

Jun 26, 202647:44with Stephanie Wang

AI is relearning everything databases already knew

AI is moving inside the database, and it's hitting the same problems databases already solved. Stephanie Wang (staff engineer at MongoDB, ex-MotherDuck founding engineer) joins Mehdi and Jacob to unpack Snowflake's Cortex AISQL, why AI inside SQL is really a query-optimization and cost problem, the compute crunch pushing RAM and inference prices up, multi-agent systems and model routing, and going slow to go fast when you build with AI.

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Jun 19, 202649:57with Yan Holtz

AI is turning all data viz into JavaScript

Yan Holtz (data-to-viz.com and the R/Python/D3 graph galleries) joins Mehdi and Alex for a full episode on data visualization in the age of AI: picking the right chart, whether dashboards are dying, and why serious data viz is converging on JavaScript and D3 now that AI writes the hard part.

Data infra is printing money. Is it sustainable? cover

Jun 13, 202645:15

Data infra is printing money. Is it sustainable?

Infrastructure keeps winning the funding while SaaS bleeds, but is it sustainable when AI agents spin up databases that die in days? Mehdi and Jacob Matson dig into Supabase's Series F, local AI on personal chips, DuckDB turning up everywhere (MariaDB, MondayDB HTAP), Anthropic's "data is not software" claim, and a wave of people building software just for themselves.

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Jun 5, 202647:06with Daniel Beach

DuckDB breaks the lakehouse? ft. Daniel Beach

Daniel Beach (Data Engineering Central) joins Mehdi and Dumky for a tour through the open lakehouse renaissance: catalog commits bring multi-writer Delta + Unity Catalog + DuckDB without Spark, Cloudflare ships a unified data platform with an AI agent called Skipper, ADBC quietly replaces JDBC/ODBC, Aaron Francis launches SoloTerm, Addy Osmani names the orchestration tax, and Mitchell Hashimoto gets a 40x speedup with an agent in a loop.

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May 29, 202652:27

161k GitHub stars in 4 months with 65 lines of Markdown

A 65-line Markdown skill file racks up 161k GitHub stars in four months — more than two-thirds of the Linux kernel. Mehdi and Dumky dig into GitHub turning into a social platform, GitHub Action supply-chain attacks, Bret Victor's ladder of abstraction, slow tech, evals for everyone, and Lenny's AI paradox.

AI tooling wars: Bun, Claude, and open source under fire cover

May 22, 202655:03

AI tooling wars: Bun, Claude, and open source under fire

Bun ditches Zig for Rust, Anthropic pulls the rug on pricing, agents are rewriting how databases work, and open source maintainers are drowning. Mehdi and Alex pick apart the AI tooling wars and why your brain feels fried.