Databricks published the argument that dashboards are obsolete, from inside the data platform that sells them.

The August 3 piece defines 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 named stack 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 can't bypass existing grants. The signal isn't the product set. It's an incumbent platform publishing the cannibalization argument itself, which Looker, Tableau and Amplitude now have to answer.