Autonomous materialized view management replaces quarterly review meetings with workload-driven scoring, and it's essential when AI agents generate.
Agents fail on raw lake data because business rules live in people's heads. Data products with semantic contracts fix this at the source.
Equality deletes made streaming upserts into Iceberg practical at the cost of read performance.
Agent reliability is a property of the stack the model sits on. Five layers with distinct owners and failure modes turn the agent is unreliable.
