๐ช๐ต๐ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐ฟ "๐๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐" ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ด๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐๐ถ๐น๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ ๐ ๐ฒ๐น๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ด
On February 3, 2026, Snowflake launched ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ถ๐น๐ผ๐. This tool automates the creation of semantic views to ensure AI agents operate on trusted business metrics rather than guessing definitions from raw tables. Simultaneously, research from ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ and ๐ง๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ป๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐๐ predicts that through 2026, organizations will abandon ๐ฒ๐ฌ% ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ due to a lack of "AI-ready" data foundations.
The industry is finally admitting that general-purpose agents "rarely survive real workloads" because they lack the deterministic grounding of a semantic layer.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฒ๐: ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ "๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ผ-๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฎ๐ฝ"
The failure rate of these AI projects (60%โ80%) validates the ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ผ-๐ง๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ต๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฎ๐ฝ. While the "Technical" capability (LLMs/Agents) is accelerating, the "Social" or organizational capability (Governance/Metadata) is stagnant.
This idea is well known in academic literature. Organizations are attempting to deploy "Autonomous" systems (High Maturity) on "Siloed" data estates (Low Maturity). Without a ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ acting as a "translation layer," the agent cannot reconcile the gap between technical schemas and business meaning, leading to the "Amnesiac Analyst" syndrome.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฒ๐: ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ต ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป๐๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐
During my tenure as Interim Director, I saw exactly why "Cortex Code" or "Semantic Autopilots" are necessary but not sufficient. You don't solve project failure with better SQL; you solve it with ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฅ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐.
If a clinician asks an agent for "Length of Stay," and the agent hits a raw table without a governed semantic definition, it might pull "Midnight Census" while the clinician needs "Discharge-to-Discharge." In a healthcare environment, that delta isn't just a dashboard error; itโs an ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ธ. The "Semantic Layer" isn't just a technical feature; it is the ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ that allows an agent to speak "Metric" without hallucinating.
Originally published on LinkedIn
