My Conference Demo Backup Plan Earlier this week I gave a live coding demo at Build London, the annual Snowflake developers’ conference. It was mostly a Python and Streamlit talk, but it needed to …

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A developer preparing for a live coding demo at a conference needed a backup plan in case of unreliable wifi. Using Snowflake's Cortex Code AI agent, they quickly migrated a 51,354-row table from Snowflake to a local DuckDB database with a simple prompt. The solution provided a safety net for the presentation, demonstrating how AI coding assistants can solve practical development challenges in minutes.