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Making Sonnet 5 the CoCo default
Cortex Code's model default? Turns out it's just a CREATE AGENT statement away.
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Posts related to my favorite lakehouse solutions: ❄️ Snowflake + 🦆 DuckDB and MotherDuck + 🐻❄️ Polars + 🧊 Iceberg
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Snowflake gave everyone 102 models and didn't tell me
200 users, zero curation, and a bootstrap grant I didn’t ask for.
Infrastructure
70 dlt pipelines, zero comments (and no alert when the schema changed)
Nobody documents dozens of tables with hundreds of columns by hand. So an agent does it, INFORMATION_SCHEMA keeps it honest, and Teams pings when a source API adds a column
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Snowflake data movement policies: the copy path gets a guardrail
Masking decides what you can see. Data movement policies decide what you can take.
Infrastructure
LinkedIn Ads ➡️ Snowflake, with 3-legged OAuth in the middle
LinkedIn's Marketing API needs a browser to authorize. Scheduled pipelines don't have browsers. I store the refresh token in Snowflake.
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I migrated a Fivetran pipeline to dltHub for $0.65
One hour, five manual inputs, and $0.65 of tokens... enough to replace a daily Fivetran sync with a tested dltHub job
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Snowflake Iceberg in 2026: open format, now without the storage chores
Three Iceberg GAs in one week advancing the old tradeoff: open format without babysitting a bucket.
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MotherDuck Flights: pipelines an agent can fly, and why dlt belongs in the cockpit
MotherDuck shipped agent-native Python pipelines. The obvious thing to run inside one is dlt.
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How I Stopped ❄️ Cortex Agents from Auto-Picking the Expensive Model
How to configure Cortex Agent models for all agents at once
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Clippy: one Snowflake Cortex Agent, two faces
The paperclip is back. He works at Pro Juventute, lives in Snowflake, and shows up in both Teams and OpenCode.
Infrastructure
Triggering dltHub Pro pipelines from Snowflake
Moved a dlt pipeline off SPCS onto dltHub Pro. Still want Snowflake to push the button.
Infrastructure
dltHub Pro is here. So is my static-egress proxy VM.
How I kept IP‑locked Snowflake and Azure databases happy with a managed runtime that runs “wherever Python runs”