Summary
Databricks has rebranded its Databricks Assistant as Genie Code and introduced a new agent mode. This new feature allows the assistant to build entire systems, including notebooks, tests, jobs, and dashboards, from a single prompt rather than just suggesting code for individual cells.
Summary generated by brickster.ai from the video transcript.
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