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Building the machine that builds the machine | InfluxDB CTO Paul Dix

Changelog — Feb 11, 2026 — interview

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InfluxDB CTO Paul Dix shares his real-world experience using AI coding agents for development tasks, discussing what succeeds in production and what fails. The conversation explores the practical challenges of adopting agentic AI in software development and examines when human-coded solutions remain preferable. This is valuable for developers and technical leaders evaluating AI agent adoption in their workflows.