DuckDB's agent moment (Jordan Tigani)

The Analytics Engineering Podcast by dbt Labs, Inc.

Jun 18, 202655:52News & Politics

Jordan Tigani helped build BigQuery, then left to bet that most data isn't big. Three years on, agents are proving him right. The MotherDuck CEO joins Tristan Handy on why local-first databases fit the agent era, and wha...

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