Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

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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Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview) is an episode from The Changelog by Changelog Media.

This episode is 1:36:31 long.

This episode was published on Feb 11, 2026.

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