Giving AI Agents Database Access Is Way Harder Than It Looks

Imagine the world 12 months from now. AI agents are everywhere and they are genuinely powerful. They write code, ship features, debug production issues, and quietly do half of the boring work nobody wanted to do anyway. But there's a catch. Agents are only as smart as the world you give them. They can't reason about a system they can't see, and they can't act on data they don't have access to. The model is the brain. You're the one who has to build the body and the room it lives in. Which means