What I don't understand is why they didn't build this project on top of DuckLake instead - from my shallow analysis they vibe coded up a fake Databricks in Python.
Not that I'd use it, I want to avoid Databricks - the Duck ecosystem is far more compelling for my modest needs, and handles local develop a lot better (IMO).
Ducklake works well. So far it is still under active development (post AWS acquisition). There is support for local disk-based and remote S3 based datalakes, so integration tests become really easy. Seems stable and all the bugs I've found have already been patched.
Praying for the poor Ducklake employees at AWS to keep whatever demon works there at bay who insists that every single data product has to be bolted onto AWS Glue (and its various Data Catalog, Data Lake, etc. partners in crime) in the most clumsy way possible. And please keep it away from Athena, possibly the worst major query engine in terms of support for query features and file formats. I don't want to see AWS-era Ducklake become another failure like S3 Table Buckets are (imo at least).
Also just want to let my appreciation here for 3.7 it’s cheap super fast super reliable incredible at information parsing eu host able (important for us) and perfectly integrated into gcp. Great job google!
You absolutely can run agents on a regular VM. But if you want to build multi-tenant and multi-agent systems with strong security boundaries, then having a VM or MicroVM per agent session (or session with a group of agents) really simplifies things.
When we did AWS AgentCore Runtime last year we introduced session isolation, with MicroVMs per session. You can think of Lambda MicroVMs as the same stack, but generalized to fit a larger number of application patterns.
You don’t have to pay that much. I did pay a couple hundred for a while, but not since I switched to Chinese models along with a $20 ChatGPT subscription.
Isn’t the point that you wanna be able to spin up and down thousands of VM:s on demand (literally a VM just to run a tool and then shut it down until the next tool call)
Sadly I think the correlation between this benchmark and performance is starting to break down imo. Still a legendary idea will be remembered and ingrained in the models forever haha
Honestly happy he’s back at a foundation lab. He will have insane impact there. Of course one of the best educators in the world it’s a bit sad he gave up building and education tool.
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