Supabase Co-Founders Discuss Infrastructure for a Billion AI-Built Apps
Supabase co-founders Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson joined host swyx on the Latent Space podcast to discuss how backend infrastructure must evolve to support a billion AI-generated applications. As AI agents increasingly generate software, traditional backend architectures must adapt to handle long-lived workloads and provide agent-friendly database schemas. The discussion focuses on running persistent workloads directly alongside databases and designing intuitive database schemas that autonomous agents can easily comprehend and query.
## BACKGROUND
Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative built on PostgreSQL that provides developers with backend services like databases, authentication, and edge functions. AI agents are autonomous programs powered by large language models capable of writing code, managing workflows, and interacting with software systems.