Egor Burlakov
••6 min readdbt + DuckDB in 2026: You Don't Need a Warehouse for That
Everyone asks which warehouse to buy. In one project, the right answer was none.
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Everyone asks which warehouse to buy. In one project, the right answer was none.
Three AI agents worth building on top of a modern data stack: analytics, incident triage, and internal knowledge assistants.
Local LLMs are practical for content generation, legal document processing, and internal knowledge bases. I benchmarked five Qwen models on my MacBook Pro. Qwen 3 14B scored 91/100 avg vs 62 for Qwen 2.5 14B -- same size, dramatically better. Newer models performed worse.