Alex Monahan
Developer Advocate
MotherDuck
Alex is a developer advocate at MotherDuck, co-author of the upcoming O’Reilly book “Ducklake - The Definitive Guide” and a DuckLake contributor. Previously, Alex was a customer software engineer at MotherDuck and a blogger for DuckDB Labs. Prior to that, Alex spent nine years at Intel moving from industrial engineer to data scientist before discovering DuckDB in 2020 and diving deeper into Duck-themed databases ever since. Beyond work, you'll find Alex jumping on trampolines and going on adventures with his daughter Adeline and wife Christy.
AI models are smart now and great at writing SQL, but they don't know how your company works. They also definitely don't know about that gap in the data from July 4th two years ago...
Teach your agents to give accurate answers by adding context. MotherDuck Guides are the simplest and most flexible way to do that: markdown files with SQL snippets that you can store in a hierarchy and link together. Simple can still be powerful, after all, the internet is "just html and hyperlinks" if you squint. Guides come bundled with MotherDuck and work automatically, but you can implement a similar approach on your own.