The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
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Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)
1 hour 36 minutes Posted Feb 11, 2026 at 8:30 pm.
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Over your agentic skis
Paul's agentic journey
Clarity in blind spots
A real-world example
Sponsor: Tiger Data
Bespoke tooling
Engineers as QA
Code review feelings
Two kinds of devs
Having taste
Who reinvents the tools
Influx and Wasm
New CLI, who dis?
Adapting Influx
Adapting culture
Adapting demos
Adapting team size
Bespoke machines
Adapting OSS
Closed contributions
What's next
Moving to Rust
Wrapping up
Closing thoughts
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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…