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The Database in the AI Era

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Gennaro Cuofano
Mar 10, 2026
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Every database ever built was designed around one assumption: humans issue queries, machines return answers. AI inverts the relationship. Now, machines are the primary consumers, and that single inversion invalidates forty years of architectural decisions.

This is the foundational layer of what it means to build the new software stack.

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