Stream: interviews

Topic: 671: Agents in the database


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Ajay Kulkarni from Tiger Data (Co-founder/CEO) is on the pod this week with Adam. He asked him to get vulnerable and trace his path to becoming a CEO. They dig into the themes that have shaped his career, and explore how founder values end up forming company culture (whether you intend them to or not). From his enterprise days to building Timescale (and the rename to Tiger Data), we cover the whole journey — even the haters, because haters gonna hate. Here's where it gets really interesting: Agents in the database! Not the hype. The real thing baby. They get into how fast you can go from idea to shipped these days, what it actually means to talk to your database, and the whole API/CLI/MCP/Skills movement. :link: https://changelog.fm/671

Ch Start Title Runs
01 00:00 This week on The Changelog 01:11
02 01:11 Sponsor: Depot 02:50
03 04:01 Welcome Ajay Kulkarni 00:33
04 04:34 Let's get vurnerable 01:39
05 06:13 Getting to CEO 01:29
06 07:43 This was 2004 (for Adam) 03:11
07 10:54 Themes in Ajay's career 05:28
08 16:21 How did you get here? 01:45
09 18:06 Conversational overlapping 01:37
10 19:43 Founder values form company culture 03:47
11 23:30 From enterprise to here 02:10
12 25:40 Postgres-native AND open source 05:17
13 30:57 Sponsor: Augment Code 02:59
14 33:57 From Timescale to Tiger Data 04:36
15 38:33 Haters hate 04:00
16 42:33 Agents in the database 06:17
17 48:49 It's the REAL THING baby 04:44
18 53:33 Speed of idea to shipped?! 06:31
19 1:00:04 Sponsor: Framer 01:39
20 1:01:43 Agent Tools 04:23
21 1:06:06 Now I can talk to the database 03:09
22 1:09:15 API/CLI/MCP/Skills 03:44
23 1:12:59 Build Skills not Agents 01:44
24 1:14:44 How will the terminal evolve? 03:09
25 1:17:53 What's on the horizon? 02:19
26 1:20:11 Thanks Ajay! 00:11
27 1:20:22 Closing thoughts and stuff 02:05

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