geek, scribe, coffee snob, and wanna-be cyclist. Contributor to Apache Spark and Delta Lake maintainer. Developer Relations at Databricks (opinions r my own)
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dennylee retweeted
“Since you're not doing this AI stuff”
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I don't think we should fight. The two companies are complementary. Since you're not doing this AI stuff, I really think Snowflake should consider getting its AI tokens through Databricks. You can get both cheap OSS models as well as frontier (OAI/Ant/Gemini/Grok) models from our platform. It all goes through Unity Gateway which has Smart Routing, Budgets, and Access Control. You can even use Omnigent with any harness, including CoCo. Most of our customers used this to reduce token spend ~30% last few months while token count went up. Genie lets you then track, control, manage that spend, all your financials, marketing, etc. Quick POC?
dennylee retweeted
We’d love to have Snowflake as a customer of our AI Gateway! my DM is open.
nitter.cf/Yuchenj_UW/status/2115…
dennylee retweeted
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says we already have all the intelligence we need, and the opportunity now is applying it productively:
"I think we already have AGI. I actually think we have achieved AGI. We just need to make it useful."
"Apply it to everyday things that we wanna do, and make it valuable at simple things. That's all we need, and that's what's gonna prove out to be very, very valuable for everything, businesses, companies, organizations."
"We don't need more intelligence, honestly."
@alighodsi (UC Berkeley, 2025)
Read the latest Profiles of the Future by @bhorowitz and @mikemcg0 on Databricks & the Future of the Firm: a16z.news/p/databricks-and-t…
dennylee retweeted
I don't think we should fight. The two companies are complementary. Since you're not doing this AI stuff, I really think Snowflake should consider getting its AI tokens through Databricks. You can get both cheap OSS models as well as frontier (OAI/Ant/Gemini/Grok) models from our platform. It all goes through Unity Gateway which has Smart Routing, Budgets, and Access Control. You can even use Omnigent with any harness, including CoCo. Most of our customers used this to reduce token spend ~30% last few months while token count went up. Genie lets you then track, control, manage that spend, all your financials, marketing, etc. Quick POC?
dennylee retweeted
What people do at work all day is changing.
Agents can take on more of the work we already know how to do, while people closest to the problem gain more room to investigate and act without waiting on layers of hierarchy.
a16z's @bhorowitz and @mikemcg0 explore why the system of record powering agents matters so much to that shift, and why Databricks is well-positioned to power it.
Read the full article: a16z.news/p/databricks-and-t…
dennylee retweeted
Ben Horowitz on Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi: "You just don't get this good of a market opportunity with this good of an entrepreneur. That's the rarest of rare things."
Despite surpassing a $7 billion run rate and growing 80% year over year, Databricks might be the most under the radar story in Silicon Valley.
Three years ago, every interaction on Databricks involved a human. Today, the company is seeing more queries from agents than people.
Ali believes AGI is already here. Yet inside most companies today, AI still isn't trusted to reliably update records in Salesforce.
"AI does not have an intelligence problem," Ali explains. "It has a context problem."
Even the smartest human would be all but useless without access to the company's data, permission to act, feedback, or the knowledge in other employees' heads. Ali's answer is what he calls a "system of record for agents."
But the bigger question is how agents will change the firm itself.
85 years ago, James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution described how a small class of professional managers centralized the decision-making inside of companies. Today, thanks to a new wave of technology, the craft practitioners at the front lines are regaining responsibility again. The irony is that the decline of managerialism may look more like everyone becoming a manager.
In this issue of Profiles of the Future, @bhorowitz and @mikemcg0 explain how seven Berkeley academics built Databricks, and why it will power the future of the firm: a16z.news/p/databricks-and-t…
dennylee retweeted
"Not today."
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dennylee retweeted
Following a PR used to mean switching back to GitHub for reviewers and comments.
Omnigent’s Pull Requests panel now shows pending reviewers, review state, and a Comments tab with a count, plus color-coded authors in the thread.
🔗 Learn more: omnigent.ai/docs/interact/we…
dennylee retweeted
Macklemore at his show last night at Red Rocks: “Being a human being in this moment is not complicated. It is not political. It is human to have a heart. To watch others suffer and to say not anymore. So I say Free Palestine. I say Free Palestine! I say Free Sudan, I say Free Congo, Lebanon to Haiti to all the people that are affected by ICE in America that are afraid to leave their houses. The message will always be love” (Video: hey.itslizzz / TikTok)
dennylee retweeted
No wonder Apple is a 5 trillion dollar company.
UPS delivery guy: "Are you waiting by the door for this?"
me: "Yes!"
him: "I never run into people when I deliver, but on iPhone release date, everybody is home waiting."
dennylee retweeted
If you keep custom agents in a Git repo and run Omnigent on more than one machine, install an agent once with omnigent agent add and pick it from the new-session picker on every host you use.
Until now, a custom agent only became available by running a session with its spec file, and it belonged to that session. Installed agents are stored on the server under your account, so they sit beside the built-in agents on every host, with no server restart.
GitHub installs ask you to confirm first, since the repo’s config runs in your sessions.
👉 Learn more: omnigent.ai/blog/install-cus…
dennylee retweeted
Omnigent 0.19: a managed MCP gateway, keyless Git for sandboxed agents (approved repos over SSH, no key in the sandbox, push optional per repo), and agent editing in Settings
omnigent.ai/releases/0.19.0
dennylee retweeted
Just to prove we shot it practically🥲
No AI, shot in-camera.
Big thanks to @umoco2020 for providing the robotic arm!
Check out the full review to see the final shots➡️nitter.cf/mediastorm_en/status/2…
dennylee retweeted
Great work on fast long-context prefill. TokenGate is a trainable module that works with existing models to make long-context inference much more efficient.
dennylee retweeted
📣 Join us Nov 4: Graph Reasoning for AI Agents.
Danfeng Xu, CTO of @puppyquery, will walk through Omnigent + PuppyGraph: graph reasoning on your existing tables, in real time, without moving a row. Skip the ETL. Keep unified governance.
Register 👇
luma.com/omnigent-bnib
#Omnigent #PuppyGraph
