Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder’s journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what’s going to prod, what’s not, and why he’s (at least for a bit) back to coding by hand.

Update: He’s back to letting the AIs write code, but with a lot more oversight. For now…

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Chapters

1 00:00 Welcome to The Changelog 00:56
2 00:56 Sponsor: Namespace 01:41
3 02:37 Start the show! 01:00
4 03:37 Over your agentic skis 00:56
5 04:33 Paul's agentic journey 22:59
6 27:32 Clarity in blind spots 00:50
7 28:22 A real-world example 07:36
8 35:58 Sponsor: Tiger Data 02:29
9 38:27 Bespoke tooling 02:01
10 40:29 Engineers as QA 03:22
11 43:50 Code review feelings 01:04
12 44:54 Two kinds of devs 02:35
13 47:29 Having taste 02:17
14 49:46 Who reinvents the tools 03:49
15 53:35 Influx and Wasm 03:52
16 57:27 New CLI, who dis? 04:48
17 1:02:16 Adapting Influx 03:56
18 1:06:12 Adapting culture 02:49
19 1:09:00 Adapting demos 03:26
20 1:12:26 Adapting team size 03:11
21 1:15:37 Bespoke machines 04:45
22 1:20:22 Adapting OSS 06:33
23 1:26:55 Closed contributions 03:12
24 1:30:07 What's next 02:12
25 1:32:19 Moving to Rust 01:14
26 1:33:33 Wrapping up 01:32
27 1:35:05 Closing thoughts 01:25

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