Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

构建制造机器的机器(访谈)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

2026-02-12

1 小时 36 分钟
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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.
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  • Welcome friends!

  • I'm Jared and you are listening to The Change Log.

  • Interviews with the hackers, the leaders, and the innovators of the software world.

  • On this episode,

  • Paul Dix joins us to discuss the influx DB co-founders 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.

  • But first, a big thank you to our partners at Fly.io, the platform for devs who just want to ship.

  • Build fast, run any code fearlessly at fly.io.

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

  • Let's do it.

  • Well friends, I don't know about you, but something bothers me about Get Up Actions.

  • I love the fact that it's there.

  • I love the fact that it's so ubiquitous.

  • I love the fact that agents that do my coding for me believe that my CI,

  • CD workflow begins with drafting Tomo files for Get Up Actions.

  • That's great.

  • It's all great.