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Data platforms

2 essays and 4 notes.

Jul 21, 2026

Not another data lake: context needs curation, not collection

The tempting answer to fragmented context is to pour everything into one place. We tried that with data, and many lakes became swamps. A context layer has to be a curated overlay: retrieval-first, owned, and pointing back to the systems that hold the truth.

Context engineering6 min read
Sep 30, 2025

Agent-first data architecture: five principles

Data platforms built for people asking questions will strain when the main consumer is software taking actions. Five principles for designing data platforms where agents are first-class users, and why an open lakehouse helps.

Data & AI platforms6 min read
Jul 2, 2025

A data engineering agent in practice

An experimental agent built pipelines, changed schemas, reverted its own mistakes and generated quality checks from plain language. Self-correction was the part that mattered.

Note1 min read
Apr 14, 2025

Governance belongs in the catalog

When business meaning, data products and relationships live in one open catalog, agents stop guessing at tables and governance travels with the data.

Note1 min read