“But it is quite different to say, I'm going to now also give my agents the ability to deploy changes to the database or make changes to how things are configured there or to shard my database, right? because that's something if it gets wrong, it's generally not as simple as clicking a button to roll it back, right?”
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From “Move Fast and Don’t Break Things: Scaling Databases for the AI Era — Ben Dicken, PlanetScale”, found 2026-10-15.
Dicken separates agents writing application code from agents deploying schema or configuration changes to a production database. A bad database change is hard to undo and can take the whole application down, so it needs its own safety mechanisms. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.