Move Fast and Don't Break Things: Scaling Databases for the AI Era — PlanetScale
AI agent demand is causing 10-100x user growth that database infrastructure cannot keep pace with
“the number of daily active users has doubled, tripled, 10 or 100 times. This is largely driven by the demand for AI agents. The infrastructure simply cannot keep up with this development.”
A PlanetScale engineer at AI Engineer conference argues that AI agent adoption is driving unprecedented database scaling challenges, with some platforms seeing 10-100x daily active user growth that existing infrastructure cannot handle. The talk reframes Facebook's old 'move fast and break things' ethos for the AI era, arguing both speed and reliability are now achievable. The content is a high-level framing talk rather than a technical announcement, limiting its signal value despite touching on a real infrastructure pain point.