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Based on our July 2026 webinar of the same name, presented by Alex Monahan. Watch the full recording on YouTube, and grab the free early-release chapters of Duck...

Writing a data pipeline with AI has never been easier. You type a prompt, wait a minute, and something that runs shows up. The pipeline is green. The number it returns is... wrong.

Indeed, a pipeline that runs and a pipeline that is correct are two different things, and AI is very good at the first one. Two things work against you.

First, AI is non-deter...

A few weeks ago we launched Flights, an AI-native Python runtime that runs inside MotherDuck. A Flight is a Python program that runs on demand or on a schedule, sitting right next to your data. No orchestrator to stand up, no servers to babysit. You write the Python (or ra...

What do you build when the only limit is what you can describe?

Someone built a map of every US county that recolors to your own idea of home. You can drag sliders for affordability, schools, clean air, walkability, and it finds which counties on a map match it best.

Someone else turned running a logistics company into a game. Twelve turns (quarters), adversaria...

In my experience, the longest part of a data project was pulling the data from all over the place into one place. I've heard horror stories of migrations that took years.

Now it takes a couple of prompts.

MotherDuck Flights is a serverless Python runtime th...