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Insight
Liu: LLM observability startups ignore full systems; just use Postgres
“The issue really is the fact that these observability companies isn't actually doing observability for the system, it's just doing the LLM thing. Like I still end up using like Datadog, right? Or like, you know, Sentry to do, like, latency. And so I just have …”
Jason Liu Apr 24, 2024 ▶ 32:35 High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
Opinion
Xin: Multiple database query languages are not an issue for AI agents
“Instead of worrying about PostgreSQL and maybe Spark SQL, why not just one? But I don't think that's an issue for agents. Agents are very eloquent in PostgreSQL or Spark SQL. It's never going to get confused. As long as the data is there and it's accessible ag…”
Reynold Xin Jun 24, 2026 ▶ 53:10 The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
Assertion Contradicted
Yegge: PostgreSQL matches dedicated graph databases on most graph workloads
“There was some joint study between IBM and some other That basically showed that Postgres was performing as well as most of the graph databases for most graph workloads.”
Steve Yegge Dec 17, 2023 ▶ 1:03:12 The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
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