Can we issue a pre-emptive ban, or at least apply extreme vetting, on referring to artificial-intelligence-based products as “self-driving”? This SnapLogic announcement actually describes an AI-based feature that recommends steps in building data pipelines. That’s more like “AI-based back seat driving”, a description I don’t expect to catch fire. Crankiness aside, AI has a huge potential to simplify data integration. SnapLogic isn’t the first to use it that way but it’s still good they do.

Here’s one more big picture item: Millenial employees pose the biggest security risk facing IT, according to a survey from Citrix and The Ponemon Institute. The problem isn’t Millenials revolting against The Man, but their introduction of mobile devices and collaboration tools without approval of corporate IT. Another losing battle against chaos, it would seem. Happy Friday!

Here’s a new buzzword for your Bingo card: “agentic AI”, which describes systems that act by themselves rather than in response to a prompt.  Salesforce was all over the concept last week, announcing its Agentforce collection.  According to the company, it replaces the “now-outdated copilots and chatbots” with agents “operating autonomously, retrieving the right data on demand, building action plans for any task, and executing these plans without requiring human intervention.”