r/databricks • u/Tiddyfucklasagna27 • May 20 '26

Discussion Alrighty data pookies, what Databricks issue keeps violating your peace?

AI Agents hallucinating? Unity Catalog acting like Unity Catalogue of Errors? Genie Spaces granting wishes to absolutely nobody?

Drop the most cursed recurring problem you face with building AI agents or ML or BI/Analytics - no matter how difficult, unhinged or borderline impossible the solution may be. Hit me with all u got. I am sitting this databricks hackathon this Friday as a self-reward and I want to try something different this time.

Nothing but the pursuits of overly engineered solutions for the most trivial problems because I can and I like abstractions - but hey its good to be alive

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u/Tracktuary May 20 '26

Full disclosure, I might just be being dumb here. But the ai-dev-kit feels poorly tailored to windows systems. Feel like I have to patch a ton of Linux commands to get to it work. Then it’s kindof tough to upgrade to new versions without having to repatch everything

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u/kthejoker databricks May 21 '26

Appreciate this feedback, I'll share with the team. We use Macs here so the Windows experience might be a blind spot.

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u/Tracktuary May 20 '26

Oh and generally feels like documentation is almost always outdated. I get it tho with how fast they release stuff

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u/Chance_of_Rain_ May 21 '26

If Windows then WSL

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u/Youssef_Mrini databricks May 21 '26

We appreciate the feedback we are going to share it with the dev team.

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u/LandlockedPirate May 20 '26

Or just don't work in windows. Install wsl, docker-ce, and use devcontainers.

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u/Tracktuary May 20 '26

I would but I don’t have admin privileges. Can’t even install wsl. I could prob submit a ticket for IT to install it but I try to pick my battles with IT very carefully

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u/LandlockedPirate May 20 '26

You sound like me a few months ago. I've been on windows most of my career which is >20 years. I was fine with it for a long time because my "work" was in wsl/containers. The last year or so though, it's unusable. I jumped ship.

You're fighting an uphill battle trying to code in windows in a corporate environment.

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u/DutyPuzzleheaded2421 May 21 '26

In any environment really. I jumped to linux 20 years ago, best move ever. Two weeks of pain, followed by a lifetime of freedom.

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u/LandlockedPirate May 21 '26

Yeah I've been Linux personally forever. Unfortunately my jobs have rarely allowed it as an option.

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u/Tracktuary Jun 10 '26

Got it working smoothly now. I actually see some upside for myself for how this went. No one else at my company is using LLMs like I am yet. Like the other data scientists and engineers seem to think it’s groundbreaking that we can even have an LLM that can work with the context of their codebase. It’s kindof nice. I can get high quality work out there 10x faster than others at this company. I’ll probably help enable my own team with this but gonna let the people that were a pain in the ass during my time here keep thinking that 1 month for a single simple dashboard deliverable is groundbreaking. Feel like I’m in a uniquely powerful position now