Cortex Guardrails: one boolean, one job, four it doesn’t do
A single boolean on AI_COMPLETE, a Llama Guard 3 wrapper, and a hardcoded filter string. Useful, cheap, and nowhere near enough on its own.
Cortex Code skills, 90 days in: plugins, not prompts
Cortex Code stopped being “just another AI feature” the moment skills landed. In under three months they’ve become the missing glue: portable, versioned building blocks that turn NPO data stacks into repeatable agent workflows.
From Orbital GPUs to Snowflake L40S: The Compute Pinch Arrives in the Warehouse
Anthropic is scrambling for GPUs, AMD is finally shipping drop‑in AI cards, and Zyphra just proved you can train real models on a full AMD stack. All of that lands in your Snowflake account the moment you run create compute pool
Retiring legacy BI with an agentic-built Streamlit app on SPCS
Build-vs-buy got rewritten by agentic coding. So I retired the legacy BI tool. 😎
Exporting Snowflake data to Excel
Generate XLSX files directly from Snowflake using a small Snowpark stored procedure, writing straight to a stage so stakeholders get ready-to-use Excel workbooks without any CSV exports or manual conversions
Snowflake interactive warehouses: cheaper, always-warm, and yes, the SQL API works
Snowflake’s interactive warehouses sit in a sweet spot for user-facing workloads: they cost 60% of a same-sized standard warehouse, can stay warm across business hours, and still serve sub‑second lookups from an interactive table
Two AI agents, one repo: delegating Snowflake work from Claude Code to Cortex Code
Claude Code and Snowflake's Cortex Code turn out to be the same agent wearing different hats - and that's exactly what makes them worth combining. A filesystem handoff between two AI agents replaced hours of manual Snowsight clicking.
Snowflake Intelligence on Snowflake Cost: let the platform watch itself
Snowflake’s ACCOUNT_USAGE is powerful but often too complex. I built a cost analyst with Snowflake Intelligence: 19+ views merged into 6 tables, 25 billing rules, enabling questions like “why did costs spike?”
Reverse-Engineering a Black-Box ERP with Claude Code
Using dlt’s AI workbench and Claude Code, I reverse‑engineered our ERP's undocumented 1,200+ table schema and produced an annotated DBML model plus ontology.
A PII-safe web search tool for Snowflake agents
A PII-safe alternative to Brave web search for Snowflake Cortex Agents, using Perplexity and AI_REDACT
Finding Snowflake tasks that silently stopped running
Snowflake tasks are great... until one stops running and nobody notices.
Snowflake Cortex Code
Taking Snowflake Cortex Code for a spin