
Provocation
GovTech showed its working. The interesting part is what it can afford.
GovTech's AIDE model, the tools that make it safe, and why the assembly cost falls hardest on teams without a central data practice.
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Provocation
GovTech's AIDE model, the tools that make it safe, and why the assembly cost falls hardest on teams without a central data practice.

Provocation
Microsoft's Reactor deep-dive shows what running coding agents on production data really takes. We count the fourteen hand-built parts a product replaces.

Provocation
A software bug throws an error; a data bug lies silently for weeks. Why agentic data engineering needs a harness for Day-2 operations, not just build demos.

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Nate Jones, Databricks, Snowflake and Microsoft all described the same gap in one week: your data platform needs a harness, not just a coding agent.
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