🤝 MotherDuck's Jordan Tigani on Building a Data Warehouse AI Agents Actually Like
• Theory Ventures talks with MotherDuck CEO Jordan Tigani (ex-BigQuery founding engineer, SingleStore alum) about designing databases for agents, not humans.
• Local-to-cloud DuckDB workflow: prototype on a laptop, then go to production by simply changing the database name — no rearchitecting required.
• AI agents turned Tigani from an NL-to-SQL skeptic into a believer — models now investigate schemas and test joins like a new analyst, instead of one-shotting queries.
• Key idea: scoping data to the workflow, not the whole org, is what makes agent answers trustworthy.
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