Snowflake debuts Cortex Code, an AI agent that understands enterprise data context

"Snowflake has launched Cortex Code, an AI-based coding agent that aims to extend AI assistance beyond SQL generation and conversational analytics into data and app development tasks. Cortex Code is designed to understand enterprise data context, including schemas, governance rules, compute constraints, and production workflows, Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product at Snowflake, said during a press briefing. As a result, developers and data teams can use natural language to build, optimize, and deploy data pipelines, analytics, machine learning (ML) workloads, and AI agents, Kleinerman added."

"Snowflake's existing AI features, such as Cortex AISQL and Snowflake Intelligence, help users query and analyze data. Analysts say the native coding agent can enable enterprise teams to move from experimentation to scalable data and app deployments faster, as the agent, unlike generic coding agents, understands critical contexts such as which tables are sensitive, which transformations are expensive, which pipelines are production-critical, and how analytics, ML, and agents are supposed to work together. That contextual understanding, according to HyperFRAME Research's practice leader of AI stack Stephanie Walter, can reduce the manual effort required to move from an experimental idea to a reliable, governed solution that is ready to run at enterprise scale."

"More so because the real risk for enterprises isn't bad code but code that breaks governance, is expensive, or can't scale, Walter added."

Snowflake launched Cortex Code, an AI-based coding agent that extends AI assistance beyond SQL generation and conversational analytics into data and app development tasks. The agent understands enterprise data context including schemas, governance rules, compute constraints, and production workflows. Developers and data teams can use natural language to build, optimize, and deploy data pipelines, analytics, machine learning workloads, and AI agents. The native agent identifies sensitive tables, expensive transformations, and production-critical pipelines to prevent governance and cost failures. Contextual understanding reduces manual effort moving prototypes to reliable, governed, production-ready solutions. Cortex Code is available in Snowsight and as a CLI tool for code editors like VS Code.

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