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Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)
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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…
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