Supabase founders discuss agent-friendly backend features on podcast
Original title: Why Agents Love Supabase
The episode covers a Docker-free local runtime, Git-based schemas, private-alpha compute, and scale-out work including Turso.
Latent Space hosts Supabase co-founders Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson on their first podcast together, focused on why coding agents often pick Supabase as an app backend. They discuss a local alpha runtime that does not need Docker, declarative schemas stored in Git, and Supabase Compute in private alpha for workloads beside the database. Scale topics include OrioleDB, Multigres in private alpha, and the Turso acquisition. The founders say Supabase launches about five million databases a month and that AI-driven usage improved activation and conversion.
Unconfirmed: Launch volume, conversion gains and the $10 billion valuation are the hosts' or founders' statements, not independently verified here.
- Host says the company went from zero to a $10 billion valuation.
- Founders say about five million databases launch each month.
- Supabase Compute and Multigres are described as private alpha.
- A local runtime alpha starts a backend without Docker.
- Declarative schemas let agents edit desired database state in Git.
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Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson on building the backend for AI agents
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