Databricks CTO: Genie changed how I work more than coding agents did
matei_zaharia · x · 2026-11-12
Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia says Genie — connected to production data, GitHub, Drive, Slack and the web with auto-learning (Genie Ontology) — transformed his work more than coding agents: competitive analysis, design-decision archaeology, bug hunting from prod events, and prototyping perf fixes, all tasks he'd never bother asking a person about.
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