Supabase never had an agent strategy — its CTO explains why it won anyway
socialwithaayan · x · 2026-10-30
An article from the Unprompted keynote analyzes how Supabase became a big winner in the agent era without ever having an explicit "agent strategy": the team noticed databases being created faster than humans could handle, and adapted its product and positioning accordingly. It distills lessons from Supabase's CTO on winning the agent era, with the talk video linked.
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