Mehdi sat down with O’Reilly author Joe Reis to discuss different aspects of data engineering. They touched on the fears surrounding data, the critical role of communication, and more.
51:58
Oct 1, 2026
Jacob Matson walks through a working data chat agent he built: MCP tools, an agentic loop, a tuned system prompt, hard-coded read-only guardrails, and telemetry. He demos it live against a real dataset, walks through the actual codebase, then shows the same backend re-platformed into a Slack bot.
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MotherDuck Features
AI ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
49:02
Sep 29, 2026
MotherDuck's new prompt_jev() function runs text classification directly from SQL using Jev, a decision-focused model from typesafe.ai. In a live demo, Jacob Matson, Dumky de Wilde, and Hamilton Ulmer showed it filtering, disambiguating, and re-ranking real data without leaving SQL. The number they kept coming back to: 100,000 rows classified at 89% accuracy in 40 seconds, compared to 32 minutes and $37.58 for a comparable LLM call.
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MotherDuck Features
AI ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines
37:22
Sep 16, 2026
One CLI to query MotherDuck, publish Python pipelines, and host dashboards from the terminal. See when it beats the MCP server, and when it doesn't.
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MotherDuck Features
AI, ML and LLMs
Data Pipelines