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Baris Gultekin: belief

14 Jan 2026 The Cognitive Revolution Snowflake VP of AI Baris Gultekin on Bringing AI to Data, Agent Design, Text-2-SQL, RAG & More

“In a world where these coding agents are such kind of capable platforms, how do you build new products? And in my mind, it is all about kind of starting with that first and then validating things quickly before you build a product in the first place.”

— Baris Gultekin

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Baris Gultekin
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belief
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14 Jan 2026
Publisher
The Cognitive Revolution

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…Yeah, that's an interesting one. There's a few public forecasting like benchmarks and competitions. I think those are really interesting too. At the point where the models are better able to predict the future than our best super forecasters or even aggregations of super forecasters, that will feel, I think, like a very meaningful shift in what's going on in the world. Any contrarian takes? Anything you think like the, anything you want to correct that you think the audience at large might be misled or misconceiving right now. I mean, we touched upon the one that's very top of mind for me right now. I think the way we build products is changing. I don't think it's contrarian, but I don't think it's happening fast enough. We're at a point where how we build products needs to radically change. And that means change of behavior, because we've been trained to build products one way. So to me, that's the biggest one. In a world where these coding agents are such kind of capable platforms, how do you build new products? And in my mind, it is all about kind of starting with that first and then validating things quickly before you build a product in the first place. Yeah, I think that's-- I've been doing that with my mom. I made her the custom travel app, travel planning app for the holidays, and it has been-- Yeah, it's inverting that process, right? I made a version, she has it, and now I sat down with her this morning over coffee, and I'm like, What do you want this thing to do that it can't do? And she's, I don't want to ask you to do more on this. I'm like, Mom, it's honestly so easy at this point. If you can articulate what you're missing, there's a pretty good chance we can get clogged code to just make it, and you can have it from one session to the next. My last question, then I'll give you the final word. What advice do you have for enterprise leaders in general? Obviously, you guys are much closer to the core for all the executives. and product owners at the companies that you serve, what do you think they should better appreciate or what can they learn from your experience?…

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