AI agents: Cause of database sprawl. And also the proposed solution
Database management work will soon be mostly automated by AI agents, just like coding, according to the CEO of Cockroach Labs, the company behind the distributed database of the same name.
Spencer Kimball told The Register that the proliferation of databases demanded by the explosion of AI agents in coding and business functions will mean that managing them in a largely manual way is out of the question.
“Nobody's going to do manual work on a database, just like almost nobody's doing manual coding anymore,” he said. “A lot of people don't even know what’s within their code base anymore, like they only know the designs, specifications and guarantees. They're still verifying the software, but in the end they're just not down at the level of code, because it doesn't make sense. It's like nobody programs in Assembly,” he said.
Kimball is among the tech CEOs with the commensurate background...
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