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06/18/2026

Is AI supposed to replace people? Or is it simply here to give us our time back?

In our latest T3D Session, Cliff Jurkiewicz from Phenom breaks down why the narrative around AI in the workplace needs a serious reality check. Instead of looking at AI as a tool for headcount replacement, forward-thinking organizations are viewing it strictly as an engine for acceleration*.

The conversation stays grounded and practical, diving into:

• Curing the "Blank Page" Problem: Using AI to eliminate the friction of starting repetitive work, not finishing it.
• The True Value Hierarchy: Why human judgment, storytelling, communication, and raw creativity still matter infinitely more than automated output.
• Modern Hiring Dynamics: How to evaluate demonstrated experience and human potential when AI tools are ubiquitous.

If you are trying to figure out where the line sits between automation and human intuition in your workflows, this deep dive is for you.

Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/AQ6JlaBQyJg

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06/11/2026

What happens when AI reaches places that were never part of the tech conversation?

In MTAR 57, Andrew Aitken from the Center for Rural AI joins JD for a conversation about rural communities, small businesses, tribal sovereignty, broadband access, and the people trying to adapt as AI moves faster into everyday life.

Instead of talking about AI in theory, this episode focuses on what adoption actually looks like outside major cities. From local workshops in Colorado to questions around data ownership and equitable access, the discussion stays grounded in the realities smaller communities are facing right now.

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06/09/2026

Why does PostgreSQL still create so many row versions? And why does vacuum still exist in modern systems?

In this T3D Session, Jonah Harris explains how PostgreSQL’s MVCC model still carries decisions originally tied to time-travel queries that disappeared decades ago.

The conversation digs into vacuum, table bloat, HOT updates, rollback optimization, and why some engineers believe PostgreSQL should have moved toward update-in-place storage years ago.

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06/08/2026

How much of your day is an actual choice?

In this episode of Health and Tech, Amanda Nystrom and JD explore how autopilot behaviors slowly take over modern life. The conversation starts with a road trip spent mostly in silence and turns into a much bigger discussion about distraction, stress, intentionality, and why so many people feel uncomfortable the moment the noise stops.

A really thoughtful conversation about attention, habits, and the challenge of being present in a culture designed to keep people constantly consuming.

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06/04/2026

Can AI actually help teams understand their data faster? Or does it just create another layer between people and the business?

In this T3D Session, MotherDuck Founder & CEO Jordan Tigani talks about how AI agents are starting to explore databases more like analysts by testing queries, inspecting schemas, and iterating toward answers instead of generating a single SQL statement.

The conversation also pushes into the harder part: context. Customer behavior, usage patterns, and operational understanding still require people who know what they’re actually looking at.

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06/03/2026

What kinds of PostgreSQL conversations are worth having right now?
The ones grounded in real systems, real constraints, and real production experience.
PG DATA 2026 is bringing together DBAs, developers, and infrastructure teams for two days of technical PostgreSQL discussions in Chicago, from deep dives into internals to practical lessons learned operating at scale.
At Command Prompt, this is the side of the community we care deeply about. People share knowledge that comes from building, fixing, scaling, and supporting production environments every day.
Proud to sponsor PG DATA 2026.
Get your tickets: https://2026.pg-data.org/

06/03/2026

Have you been looking for a more grounded conversation about AI?
“To AI or Not to AI” is this week, June 10 at 1pm ET.
Join the Postgres Conference community for a live Q&A focused on real experiences, real questions, and practical perspectives.
Register: https://postgresconf.org/conferences/postgresworld_webinars_2026/tickets

06/02/2026

Are your PostgreSQL performance problems actually visible? Or are the settings you need still turned off?

In this T3D Session, Ryan Booz from pganalyze talks about one of the most common frustrations in Postgres operations: critical monitoring and logging capabilities that many teams only discover after production issues begin.

The conversation digs into pg_stat_statements, conservative defaults, auto-tuning, and the gap between developing PostgreSQL and running it in the real world.

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06/02/2026

One of our DBAs Justin Graf has been watching the recent supply chain attack wave closely and wrote up his perspective.

The short version: modern software runs on blind trust, and that trust is getting exploited.

The Laravel-Lang incident showed that version pinning offered no protection when the tags themselves were rewritten. SBOMs and lock files don’t help if the source is compromised.

His starting point: audit your dependency chains and fork critical dependencies to a private repo you control.

Read here: https://www.commandprompt.com/blog/is-trust-gone-supply-chain-attacks/

Is Trust Gone? Has the supply chain attacks eroded the trust we have in public repositories

06/01/2026

What do you get when you bring together people who actually run PostgreSQL systems every day?
Better conversations.
PG DATA 2026 is focused on the real work behind Postgres, architecture decisions, database internals, operational lessons, scaling challenges, and the tradeoffs teams face once systems are live and growing.
That’s the kind of community Command Prompt has always believed in supporting.
We’re proud to sponsor this year’s event and spend time with the engineers, DBAs, and developers pushing PostgreSQL forward in production environments every day.
June 4-5 in Chicago at Loyola University Water Tower Campus.
Get your tickets: https://2026.pg-data.org/