Jared

I'm Jared, and you are listening to The Changelog, interviews with the hackers, the leaders, and the innovators of the software world.

On this episode, 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 now, hand-coding once again.

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Okay, Paul Dix, and building the machine that builds the machine on the changelog.

Let's do it.

None of which is- Did you accomplish any of your side quests?

Like were they accomplished?

You're not shipping your PromQL thing?

You're going to have an engineer who's armed with Claude and Codex support it.

Yeah, 100%.

I think your engineers will become your QA in terms of, I don't think you necessarily need separate people for this because they're well-positioned to actually craft those tools.

As you said, it's no longer boring plumbing work because you're not doing the work yourself anyways.

It's actually going to be kind of exciting and fulfilling to create

qualitative analysis tool that can be used across.

agent written code well i was going to ask you if you included code review in that because you didn't mention anything about code review at the certain point when you have so many validation tools you know do you do randomized testing like you like they do a drug test like do you have to do you have to code review everything because that's going to be such a bottleneck whereas if you have your 1100 integration tests and then you add on to that thing after thing after thing to verify at a certain point do you need to do code review

I know today you do.

Zero users, you know, demo it off.

Nothing to lose.