Todd Beauchene

Family man and data geek. Passionate about technology and data. My tweets are my own.

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

These challenges are exactly what @genesiscomp_ai is solving for our customers. What an exciting time.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Whether it’s existing consulting firms, new ones that emerge, FDEs from agent vendors, or new internal agent engineering roles, the amount of work that is going to be created to implement agents in enterprises will exceed anything we imagine today.

The complexity of implementing agents in any existing organizations is very real. When I talk to large enterprises, as you move from a chat paradigm to agents that participate in meaningful workflows, there are a number of things they need to do.

First, you have to get agents to be able to talk to your data securely across your systems. In many cases, enterprises have decades of legacy infrastructure that contain the valuable context for AI agents. That’s going to take a ton of work to go modernize and move to systems that work well with agents.

Then, you need to ensure that you’ve implemented agents with the right access controls and entitlements, the right scopes to be safely used, and have ways of monitoring, logging, and securing the work that they do.

Next, you need to actually document the processes in the organization in a way that agents can utilize for doing the work. You also need to figure out what the new workflow looks like when agents and people are working together on a process, and who steps in where. Just replicating the old workflow will mute the gains. Oh and you likely need to create evals for your top new end-state processes.

Finally, you have to keep up with a rapidly changing set of best practices and architectural shifts happening in the agent space. While it’s fun for people to change their personal productivity tools on a dime, it’s 100X harder to do this in a business process. The speed of change is a blessing and a curse right now for anyone trying to keep a stable system design.

All of this means that individuals and companies that develop expertise on the above set of components (and more) are going to be needed to help organizations actually implement agents at scale. This is also the rationale for vertical AI agents right now that can go in deep on a business domain and help bring automation to it.

This is a huge opportunity right now whether you’re doing this internally or as an external business provider.

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

@Snowflake SKO attendees: please come by the @genesiscomp_ai booth to learn how our agents leverage Cortex Code to accelerate Data Engineering.

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

I find her insights very valueable for anyone looking to leran more about AI. https://t.co/9MD1eiPSB8

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

Trying out a new way to share ideas https://t.co/CEYbE1MR3v

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

We at @genesiscomp_ai couldn’t agree more. Just like employees, agents work best when the expectations are clear and the goals are measurable.

[Databricks @databricks]

Guardrails are a key consideration for AI adoption, as enterprises focus on safety, transparency, auditability, and strong access controls to ensure models operate within trusted boundaries.

Watch @alighodsi dive deep into the future of enterprise AI: https://t.co/YXlcdoyi5P

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

@BYUCougars @BYUSportsCamps What a great experience with my daughter this past weekend. Big thanks to all involved.

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

When it becomes apparent that equity in a startup is going to represent life-changing outcomes, there is an inevitable culture shift. Many early employees will do anything to keep their job and keep vesting and later-stage employees will do anything to get more equity.

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

You know a startup has irrevocably become a corporation when a majority of its employees stop viewing their main job as winning in the market and start viewing it as meeting the expectations of their manager — and a majority of these managers are doing the exact same thing.

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

AI hot take: transformers are going to end up being much more important than the LLMs they enable.

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

I sat down with Joe Reis a few weeks ago to discuss my journey in data. Hope you find it insightful. https://t.co/Qnkl1ikSTx

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

@KentGraziano That sounds like the best way to go.

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

I am planning to start publishing more data content in order to share my experience with the data industry. While X has a healthy data community, I have actually seen more interesting content on LinkedIn recently than I see here. Interested to hear if others see the same thing.

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

@RileyJensen Earl Campbell, destroyer of linebackers

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

This is not surprising to me at all. Trust in data is not where it needs to be given the need for data-driven analysis. Yet another reason to consider @revefiinc to manage your data platform.

[Gartner @Gartner_inc]

Over ⅓ of CFOs believe that data quality inhibits the use of AI in finance.

Explore three fundamentals to deliver AI-ready data and trusted finance insights that deliver impact across the enterprise: https://t.co/hUfWLhk9Ty

#FinanceAnalytics #DataGovernance

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

@CriddleBenjamin In 1992 I was a freshman and we managed to get 4 tickets so we drove up from Provo. We got snow balls thrown at us and got cussed out, but we did see Jamal Willis torch the Utes.

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

@BYUCougars @BYUfootball

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

Stop by and say hello. I am excited to talk about all of the amazing work the Forward Deployed Engineering team is doing.

[Alation @Alation]

🚧 Construction in progress 🚧

It’s all coming together: it’s fun to see the Alation booth come to life at @SnowflakeDB AI Data Cloud Summit!

Head to booth 1330 tomorrow to see what we have in store.

Allie plushies, anyone? 👀 #datacloudsummit

https://t.co/v2QHEaBSAU

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

It is always kind of surreal to attend Snowflake Summit. As an early employee, it amazes me how big the company has become. It goes to show that a truly innovative idea and a ton of hard work by a lot of smart people can change the world.

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

Celebrating a special day at the #byufootball game. Section 32 Row 20. Go Cougs!

[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

I am excited to share my thoughts on where the @Alation partner ecosystem is heading. #Partnerships #dataculture
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[Todd Beauchene @ToddBeauchene]

Come and see for yourself how much value @Alation brings for @SnowflakeDB customers.

[Alation @Alation]

If you're attending #SnowflakeSummit, join this hands-on lab!

Join us & @SnowflakeDB to learn how Snowflake and Alation can:

⚔️ Mitigate compliance risk
🔋 Boost user productivity
✅ Enhance data usage

We're offering this twice, so no excuses! ☝️

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