AI Agents: machine that builds the machine

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Paul Dix
Cofounder and CTO at InfluxDB, series editor on Addison Wesley's "Data & Analytics

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

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

Paul Dix on X: "2026: The Great Engineering Divergence" / X

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DotNet/C#: DB => Mermaid charts

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