Why AI Agents Need a Semantic Layer (and What That Actually Means in 2026)
Everyone is racing to put an AI agent on top of their data. Almost nobody is asking whether the agent can be trusted to act on what it sees. That is the wrong order. And the way most teams are trying to fix it — bigger context windows, more reasoning, another eval — is also wrong. The generative model stopped being the hard part of agentic analytics months ago. Wiring an LLM to a warehouse is a weekend project.