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There's a growing consensus in the AI tooling world that goes something like this: *databases are overkill for AI agents—just use files.* You can see it everywhere.

AI is about to write most of the code in the world.

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I've been having a lot of fun working on [Hydro](https://github.com/hydro-project/hydro) at AWS this fall.

import { withPrefix } from "gatsby" ## 🔔 I've Joined AWS ... with one foot still at Berkeley.

I write this note on my way home from the annual [ACM SIGMOD](https://2025.sigmod.org) conference, one of the top venues for data management research.

As a complement to my last post, I thought I'd write a follow-up with some constructive advice.

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After a lecture on cosmology, William James was challenged by a skeptic: "Your theories are incorrect.

Over the next few days, I'm going to post a number of observations about *CRDTs*: ~~Convergent~~ Conflict-free Replicated Data Types.

This is the second of two background posts reflecting on my technical interests, to set some context for this blog.

Time to get blogging again.