# Databricks CTO says Genie changed his work more than coding agents

> Original title: Genie has transformed how I work as CTO at Databricks, even more than coding agents. It connects across production data, GitHub, Drive, S...

- Source: Matei Zaharia
- Published: 2026-11-11T19:50:53.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/pshws93xrbk5vf0nu8wae5l61
- Original: https://x.com/matei_zaharia/status/2120605199022907466

## Summary

Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia says Genie has changed how he works more than coding agents do. He says it connects production data, GitHub, Drive, Slack and the web, and learns from them through Genie Ontology, letting him ask it to compare competitor positioning, trace design decisions, find bugs and prototype speedups for slow services.

## Post

Genie has transformed how I work as CTO at Databricks, even more than coding agents. It connects across production data, GitHub, Drive, Slack and the web, and automatically learns from this data (Genie Ontology), so I can ask it to do stuff like:

- Tell me how competitors position vs each of our products and which critiques are valid
- Find when and why a design decision was made
- Find bugs based on production events + code changes
- Prototype code changes that would speed up our slowest services in production

Really, it can do so much stuff that I would never even bother to ask a person that it totally changes how you work and the size of tasks you can take on directly. Learn more about our latest release of Genie: https://www.databricks.com/blog/new-genie-autonomous-ai-complex-enterprise-work