Databricks Published a Direct Argument That Dashboards Are Obsolete — From Inside the Data Platform That Sells Them
On August 3 Databricks put out a developer perspective piece defining 'agentic BI' explicitly against dashboards: a dashboard is a fixed set of charts built ahead of time by someone guessing which questions would matter, while an agent interprets the question in the moment, decides which tables to query, and can trigger a next step. The stack it names is Genie for the conversational layer over governed Unity Catalog tables, Agent Bricks for agents that act rather than visualize, MLflow to trace and evaluate every query before production trust, and Unity Catalog column-level permissions so natural-language access cannot bypass existing grants. The signal is not the product set — it is an incumbent platform publishing the cannibalization argument itself, which is what Looker, Tableau and Amplitude now have to answer.
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