Perhaps a charitable take is that this is a musing on how to use immutability for building agents? Maybe a functional approach would be less constrictive than SQL.
Indeed. I'm very curious about the original source of inspiration for the post, "That microservice should have been a SQL query". It's not as catchy without AI though.
If you read through the whole thing, they don't manage to build an AI Agent, they make LLM API calls using Flink's SQL.
They admit making it agentic, with choice over tool selection and with agent-like memory, requires workarounds.
Annoying workarounds, imo.
The post mentions work is in progress to build agents that use Flink without using Flink SQL.
Thereby invalidating it's own title.