By Alex Merced, Head of Developer Relations at Dremio
The date in this topic matters. Today is July 6, 2026. A release candidate dated July 28, 2026 is still in the future.
AI agents are very good at moving quickly. That is the opportunity and the risk. If an agent can inspect metadata, generate queries, compare results.
Open table formats changed the data lakehouse conversation, but they did not finish it. A table can be stored in an open format and still be hard.
