Embracing AI Disruption and AI Tooling

About this episode

Alex Merced discusses the potential of AI tools and encourages listeners to embrace the changes brought by AI.

Alex Merced talks about how his optimism about the Agentic AI tool and poses the question, if people can run as fast as they could before AI, instead of resenting them for it, ask yourself how much further you can now run with AI. Follow Alex on Social: AlexMerced.com The Data Lakehouse Community: https://www.datalakehousehub.com

People in this episode

Host: Alex Merced

Topics covered

• AI disruption
• Agentic AI
• technology
• optimism
• tooling

Keywords

• AI
• Agentic AI
• disruption
• technology
• optimism
• tooling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Data Lakehouse Community, AlexMerced.com

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