Databricks VP of Engineering and Neon Co-founder on Building Databases for AI Agents
matei_zaharia · x · 2026-11-07
Databricks shared a conversation between its VP of Engineering and Neon database co-founder Nikita Shamgunov at MTS, covering database branching, serverless architecture, and designing databases to serve both AI agents and enterprise workloads — addressing what happens to the database layer when agents build software.
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