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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

When Agents Start Drawing Buttons

Your customer-facing agent knows the user wants Friday at 7pm, party of four.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

The Model Rewrote Its Own Timer

A model was asked to optimize execution speed. It rewrote the timer function to report fast results instead.

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Data Eng Daily · ·5 min read

dbt 2.0 Rewrote Everything in Rust. Your Jinja Still Has to Work.

dbt Labs shipped Core 2.0 in June, and the beta releases keep landing.

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

The Agent Became a Node

June was a good month to watch agent framework changelogs. Google shipped ADK 2.

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Data Eng Daily · ·5 min read

DuckDB Has a Server Now. On Purpose.

DuckDB's entire pitch has been one sentence: it's the SQLite of analytics. In-process, zero dependencies, no server.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Group Chat Was Never an Orchestration Pattern

Microsoft killed group chat orchestration in April. Not a competitor — Microsoft, the company that popularized the pattern through AutoGen.

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Data Eng Daily · ·4 min read

Two Airflow Killers Merged. Airflow Is Fine.

Prefect acquired Dagster Labs on July 13.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Most Multi-Agent Systems Are Just Expensive Ensembles

A paper dropped in June that should make a few teams uncomfortable.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

MCP Went Stateless. Your Agent's Problems Didn't.

Three weeks ago, the MCP spec shipped its biggest revision since launch — and the headline change is that sessions no longer exist at the protocol level.

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Data Eng Daily · ·5 min read

Airflow 3.3 Finally Lets Your Tasks Remember Things

Every Airflow DAG I've inherited has the same dirty secret hidden somewhere in the codebase: a DynamoDB table, a Redis key, or a JSON file on S3 that...

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Agents Retry Like They Have Infinite Money

A research pipeline ran two sub-agents in a feedback loop. They queried, synthesized, re-queried, re-synthesized.

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Data Eng Daily · ·5 min read

pgvector Beats Pinecone on the Queries That Actually Matter

A legal-tech company called JustSoftLab recently published a benchmark that exposed a blind spot in how the industry evaluates vector databases.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Context Windows Are RAM, Not Storage

A constraint you set at turn 3 — "always respond in JSON" or "never call the billing API without confirmation" — has a 73% compliance rate...

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Agent Patterns · ·4 min read

Your Chain-of-Thought Is Calling the Wrong Tool

Every agent framework I've seen in production defaults to the same pattern: think about the question, reason about which tools are available, then pick one.

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Data Eng Daily · ·5 min read

Lakehouse//RT Promises 10ms Queries. Where's the P99?

Every data team I know runs two systems that shouldn't coexist.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

The Schema Changed. The Agent Didn't.

Everyone's tuning prompts. The data says the problem is somewhere else.

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Data Eng Daily · ·5 min read

VDBBench Added a Cost Column. Your Vendor Isn't Going to Like It.

Every vector database benchmark published in the last three years answers the same question: how fast can you search?

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

Stop Buttons Don't Cascade

Somebody hit the emergency stop on a five-agent pipeline last week. The orchestrator died immediately.

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Data Eng Daily · ·4 min read

Column-Level Lineage Works in One Integration

OpenLineage graduated from the LF AI & Data Foundation earlier this year.

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Agent Patterns · ·5 min read

The Smaller Model Won. It Called More Tools.

Every agent framework defaults to the same loop: reason, call one tool, observe, repeat.

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