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. :link: https://changelog.fm/676
| Ch | Start | Title | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 00:00 | Welcome to The Changelog | 00:56 |
| 02 | 00:56 | Sponsor: Namespace | 01:41 |
| 03 | 02:37 | Start the show! | 01:00 |
| 04 | 03:37 | Over your agentic skis | 00:56 |
| 05 | 04:33 | Paul's agentic journey | 22:59 |
| 06 | 27:32 | Clarity in blind spots | 00:50 |
| 07 | 28:22 | A real-world example | 07:36 |
| 08 | 35:58 | Sponsor: Tiger Data | 02:29 |
| 09 | 38:27 | Bespoke tooling | 02:01 |
| 10 | 40:29 | Engineers as QA | 03:22 |
| 11 | 43:50 | Code review feelings | 01:04 |
| 12 | 44:54 | Two kinds of devs | 02:35 |
| 13 | 47:29 | Having taste | 02:17 |
| 14 | 49:46 | Who reinvents the tools | 03:49 |
| 15 | 53:35 | Influx and Wasm | 03:52 |
| 16 | 57:27 | New CLI, who dis? | 04:48 |
| 17 | 1:02:16 | Adapting Influx | 03:56 |
| 18 | 1:06:12 | Adapting culture | 02:49 |
| 19 | 1:09:00 | Adapting demos | 03:26 |
| 20 | 1:12:26 | Adapting team size | 03:11 |
| 21 | 1:15:37 | Bespoke machines | 04:45 |
| 22 | 1:20:22 | Adapting OSS | 06:33 |
| 23 | 1:26:55 | Closed contributions | 03:12 |
| 24 | 1:30:07 | What's next | 02:12 |
| 25 | 1:32:19 | Moving to Rust | 01:14 |
| 26 | 1:33:33 | Wrapping up | 01:32 |
| 27 | 1:35:05 | Closing thoughts | 01:25 |
Last updated: Feb 17 2026 at 17:33 UTC