Supabase founders on rebuilding the backend for a billion AI-built apps
Latent Space · rss · 2026-10-27
Supabase co-founders Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson join Latent Space to discuss how backends must change when AI agents generate most software.
Key points:
- Supabase Compute: running long-lived workloads alongside the database, built on the OrioleDB storage engine
- Multigres: highly available Postgres infrastructure, now in private alpha
- Acquiring Turso: betting on scale-out, aiming from prototype to petabyte
- Agent-driven activation: making schemas legible to agents, code-first infrastructure and declarative schemas
- Also covers Postgres reliability, open source vs enterprise sales, durable workflows, internal AI usage, and hiring for a remote-first company
Recorded ahead of Supabase Select 2026, the conversation frames a central question: with far more applications being built, will the app builder or the database be stickier, and will AI-generated software converge?
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