Treat your data pipelines like code, because your agents already do | MotherDuck's Jordan Tigani

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Your data warehouse still thinks a human is on the other end of the query. That's a problem MotherDuck CEO and co-founder Jordan Tigani knows from the inside, having spent years as a founding engineer on Google BigQuery. This week on Dev Interrupted, he joins Andrew to make the case that one warehouse per agent beats the distributed systems he used to work on. He lays out Watertown, his riff on Steve Yegge's Gastown that recasts the data engineer as the manager of a fleet of agents, and walks through how MotherDuck's Flights, Dives, and just-launched Guides keep pipelines, visualizations, and business context as code reviewed in GitHub.  Get the guide: Your software factory needs a context layer Follow the show: • Subscribe to our Substack  • Follow us on LinkedIn • Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Follow the hosts: • Follow Andrew • Follow Ben • Follow Dan Follow today's guest: • MotherDuck: The DuckDB-powered data warehouse built for small data and agents at motherduck.com • Water-Town: Read Jordan's take on the agent swarm data stack, his riff on Gastown, at motherduck.com/blog • Flights: Learn how MotherDuck turns data ingest into scheduled Python scripts your agents can w