Building the machine that builds the machine

About this episode

Paul Dix discusses his experiences with AI coding agents and their impact on software development.

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…

People in this episode

Guest: Paul Dix

Topics covered

• AI
• coding
• software development
• technology
• automation

Keywords

• AI coding agents
• InfluxDB
• software development
• coding by hand
• automation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: InfluxDB, Changelog Media

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