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Feb 11, 2026 1 hr 36 min

Building the machine that builds the machine

from Changelog Interviews

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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Building the machine that builds the machine

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  1. 0:00 Welcome to The Changelog
  2. 0:56 Sponsor: Namespace
  3. 2:37 Start the show!
  4. 3:37 Over your agentic skis
  5. 4:33 Paul's agentic journey
  6. 27:32 Clarity in blind spots
  7. 28:22 A real-world example
  8. 35:58 Sponsor: Tiger Data
  9. 38:27 Bespoke tooling
  10. 40:29 Engineers as QA
  11. 43:50 Code review feelings
  12. 44:54 Two kinds of devs
  13. 47:29 Having taste
  14. 49:46 Who reinvents the tools
  15. 53:35 Influx and Wasm
  16. 57:27 New CLI, who dis?
  17. 1:02:16 Adapting Influx
  18. 1:06:12 Adapting culture
  19. 1:09:00 Adapting demos
  20. 1:12:26 Adapting team size
  21. 1:15:37 Bespoke machines
  22. 1:20:22 Adapting OSS
  23. 1:26:55 Closed contributions
  24. 1:30:07 What's next
  25. 1:32:19 Moving to Rust
  26. 1:33:33 Wrapping up
  27. 1:35:05 Closing thoughts

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