Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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Ajay Kulkarni shares how Tiger Data is rethinking the database for an agent-driven world, where tools like Claude Code write most of the code, developers collaborate with AI through MCP and CLIs, and databases must spin up instantly, retrieve context intelligently, and avoid getting in the way.

They dive into:
• How agents are changing the entire software development lifecycle
• Why MCP and tool “affordances” matter for AI-driven workflows
• What databases need to look like when 70%+ of code is AI-generated
• How Tiger Data is adapting its roadmap for this new reality
• Why re:Invent feels like the industry’s “central market” for seeing how everything is shifting

A great conversation on where developer tools, and developers themselves, are headed next.