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.

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Paul Dix, co-founder and CTO of InfluxDB, shares his hands-on experience experimenting with AI coding agents in real-world development scenarios. He discusses which agent-assisted workflows made it to production, which didn't work out, and why he's temporarily returned to manual coding. The conversation explores practical lessons learned from adapting development processes to an agentic world.

Building the machine that builds the machine with Paul Dix, co-founder & CTO at InfluxDB (Changelog Interviews #676)