With the right investment and the right tools, we will see more AI innovation in this next generation than all previous generations combined.
Words found on the source page on Nov 6, 2026.
More from Ali Ghodsi
PressDatabricks surpasses $7B revenue run-rate (Databricks press release)Aug 13, 2026
Enterprises don't just want AI that talks. They want agents working across their business that remember context, deliver accurate answers, and execute work without blowing through their budgets...PressDatabricks strategic funding round (Databricks press release)Jul 16, 2026
Enterprises are moving from tokenmaxxing to valuemaxxing.PressDatabricks launches Genie One (Databricks press release)Jun 16, 2026
If you're a CFO and AI can't tell you why margins changed, or you're a sales leader, and it can't find your next upsell, that's not an AI problem, that's a context problem.PressDatabricks launches Genie One (Databricks press release)Jun 16, 2026
Most enterprise AI today is just guessing with false confidence. That is not good enough for business...PressDatabricks launches LTAP (Databricks press release)Jun 16, 2026
Then agents arrived. In a matter of months, organizations effectively doubled their workforce, just not with humans. Agents write code, make calls, and run loops at a pace human teams never could.PressDatabricks launches Lakewatch (Databricks press release)Mar 24, 2026
Security teams can no longer rely on manual workflows to outpace AI-driven attacks...PressDatabricks launches Genie Code (Databricks press release)Mar 11, 2026
We're moving from a world where data professionals are assisted by AI to one where AI agents do the work, guided by humans. We are calling this Agentic Data Work. It will fundamentally change how enterprises make decisions.BlogA New Era of Databases: Lakebase (co-authored)Jun 12, 2025
Every piece of software in the world, every application, every workflow, every AI-generated line of code ultimately depends on a database underneath. Along the way, we’ve completely reinvented how applications are built, but the underlying databases have changed very little since the 1980s.PressDatabricks agrees to acquire Neon (Databricks press release)May 14, 2025
Neon proves it: four out of every five databases on their platform are spun up by code, not humans.
On the same topics
BlogI do not want your brains to rotSep 17, 2026
Cognitive offloading is a strategic delegation that costs nothing. Cognitive surrender is something different; an uncritical abdication of reasoning itself. And there is something about AI, about its allure and potency, that could make surrender far more widespread.BlogI do not want your brains to rotSep 17, 2026
Now advanced AI encourages us to delegate more and more, simpler and simpler tasks, weakening the practices that maintain our cognitive capacities.EssayHow Universities Should Prepare FoundersAugust 2026
And even if you have AIs writing all your code for you, you're still in the position of an engineering manager, and good engineering managers should be able to do the work of those working for them.EssayBanning AI in Law School: We've Seen This BeforeJul 11, 2026
In the case of AI, the connection of AI to freedom of expression is unshakable and irrefutable.EssayWhat if everyone could afford an expert?Jun 18, 2026
More specifically, I believe it will become a norm, in the way that smartphones have become a norm, for billions of people worldwide to have a designated AI health advisor, an AI legal advisor, and a general-purpose AI tutor that they regularly consult with as they navigate their lives.PodcastDwarkesh Podcast: AGI is still a decade awayOct 17, 2025
In my mind, education is the very difficult technical process of building ramps to knowledge.
About this quote