Peter Calvanelli

Personal website with essays and a blog.

An Open Question: What Does the Loop Stand On?

November 12, 2026Peter Calvanelli

I've written about agents, meaning, and feedback. I haven't said where an organization keeps what it knows and what it decides. I don't know yet.

November 12, 2026Peter Calvanelli

An agent that is always on makes one small decision all day: is this worth telling someone? That decision deserves its own model, and its own row.

November 11, 2026Peter Calvanelli

MotherDuck named a new role, the Data Intelligence Engineer. I think the bigger change is in posture: an agent that waits, and a layer that heals.

November 9, 2026Peter Calvanelli

Keys and dependencies flow through a query plan the way types flow through a program. Part two is about that walk, and the evidence it leaves behind.

November 6, 2026Peter Calvanelli

I'm building a static checker for dbt projects, in the open. It never connects to a warehouse. That's the whole trick.

November 3, 2026Peter Calvanelli

An agent that can read anything can be told anything. I'd rather give it a smaller world.

October 29, 2026Peter Calvanelli

Agents will soon act on your data. Who tells them what it means?