Paul Dix

I mean, I pay for both.

And at that point, I thought it was pretty amazing.

And by, I would say, it was funny, like,

the week before Gemini 3 came out.

So basically the ordering was Gemini 3 came out, then Opus 4.5 came out, then- Like two days later.

Yeah, then GPT-5.2 came out, right?

So basically the weekend before Gemini 3 came out, I wrote this like lengthy, again, like lengthy document to share with my engineering team internally.

I was like,

hey, everybody, we have got to figure out how to take advantage of these capabilities.

And I would say one of the things we've seen internally within InfluxDB is every product manager has gotten on these tools and they have just been insanely productive.

It started in the fall of 24, where I told one of our product managers, he wanted to do a UI thing.

And I was like, we do not have bandwidth for that.

We can't assign engineers for that.

I was like, if you really want to do it, go get Replit and see what you can do.

And he created something that was pretty interesting.

And then we brought in a separate team to turn that into an actual UI product, which we now have.

But that's how it started.

And then once I started using Cloud Code, I told all of our product managers, I was like,

okay, get the source code, use cloud code, because you don't have to wait to ask engineers questions anymore.

And you don't have to wait to ask engineers to do tiny things.