Is the Data Lakehouse Dead? Databricks, Iceberg, & Google's New AI Stack | Agents of Dev Episode 21

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The "open table format wars" are officially over, but a new era of vertically integrated AI stacks is just beginning.

In this episode of Agents of Dev, Mitch Ashley and Brad Shimmin dive deep into the massive wave of announcements from Google Cloud Next, focusing on the shift from systems of intelligence to "systems of action."

Brad breaks down why Databricks embracing Apache Iceberg v3 is a game-changer for data portability and how Google’s new Agentic Data Cloud—powered by Spanner Graph and a new "Knowledge Catalog"—is turning raw object storage into self-enriching reasoning engines. Meanwhile, Mitch puzzles over Elon Musk’s SpaceX/Cursor acquisition and proposes a new framework for the emerging AI stack.

From "vibe coding" your way to Mars to the controversial rise of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as the universal access layer, this conversation explores how the industry is optimizing through abstraction to give AI true agency. 

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