PostgreSQL
3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 17, 2023 by Steve Yegge · said 72 times in 26 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2026 25 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
- The Agent Cloud: Databricks’ Bet on the Future of AI — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
- Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
- GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
- Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- ⚡️ How to turn Documents into Knowledge: Graphs in Modern AI — Emil Eifrem, CEO Neo4J
- Notion’s Sarah Sachs & Simon Last on Custom Agents, Evals, and the Future of Work
- Marc Andreessen introspects on Death of the Browser, Pi + OpenClaw, and Why "This Time Is Different"
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2025 20 mentions in 10 episodes 2 per episode
- The Rise and Fall of the Vector DB category: Jo Kristian Bergum (ex-Chief Scientist, Vespa)
- Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- ⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- DeepWiki: The GitHub Encyclopedia
- Tiny Teams: $6m ARR, 5m users with 4 employees — Sid Bendre, Oleve (Quizard AI/Unstuck AI)
- The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot
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2024 22 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
- Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
- The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
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2023 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
Everything said about PostgreSQL, oldest first
Dec 17, 2023 positive
Apr 24, 2024 negative
Liu: LLM observability startups ignore full systems; just use Postgres
“The issue really is the fact that these observability companies isn't actually doing observability for the system, it's just doing the LLM thing. Like I still end up using like Datadog, right? Or like, you know, Sentry to do, like, latency. And so I just have …”
Jun 24, 2026 positive
Xin: Multiple database query languages are not an issue for AI agents
“Instead of worrying about PostgreSQL and maybe Spark SQL, why not just one? But I don't think that's an issue for agents. Agents are very eloquent in PostgreSQL or Spark SQL. It's never going to get confused. As long as the data is there and it's accessible ag…”