DuckDB's agent moment (55 minute podcast) (opens in new tab)

MotherDuck argues DuckDB's local-first, single-node design fits agents that spin up isolated environments, branch workloads, and run analytical queries. It reports roughly 3 ms median latency and claims a $2.40/hour instance beats a $64/hour Snowflake 2XL by about 5x on ClickBench. The vision is agent swarms handling profiling, quality evals, context, anomalies, and lineage.