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Giving an agent read-only access to the telemetry data of a well-instrumented system and asking a question is a wild experience They are very good at this, easily better than the vast majority of engineers, and unlike engineers their attention is very cheap

As a corollary to this, observability tools should expect a *lot* of growth in query volume. Users that hook agents up end up doing orders-of-magnitude more queries

Separating compute and storage goes from a nice-to-have to absolutely necessary FireTiger was recently acquired, but I think their approach of “just give an agent a machine and duckdb and let it go ham” was very underrated bsky.app/profile/jere...

I don’t want to bang on too much about ClickHouse cloud, but it really is magical for this. Whack a read only replica on a warehouse is magic. Things like being able to set profile boundaries like a default max mem of 1GB, but allowing agents to override to 10GB memory is also magic.