Data Infrastructure Is the Secret Weapon in the Agentic Era
The Take Here’s the thing nobody wants to talk about at AI conferences: your agents are only as good as the data infrastructure underneath them. Everyone’s building agents. Everyone’s wrapping LLMs in tool-calling loops and giving them fancy names. Cool. But when those agents need to actually do something useful — retrieve context, make decisions, take actions on real business data — the bottleneck isn’t the model. It’s the plumbing. It’s always the plumbing. ...