Why Agents Love Supabase — with Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson

Why do AI agents keep choosing Supabase—and what changes when the agent becomes the user? Supabase co-founders Paul Copplestone (CEO) and Ant Wilson (CTO) join swyx for their first podcast together after a $0 to $10B speedrun as the preeminent open source, fully remote Postgres platform company. We have watched them grow from a humble Firebase alternative launched during Covid, to now being a full preferred backend for AI-built applications: long-running compute beside the database, declarative schemas, Postgres storage and reliability, Turso, developer memes, community-led distribution, and product-led sales. The episode opens with swyx’s commentary on Supabase Select and the company’s journey from zero to a $10B valuation in six years as an open-source, fully remote company. swyx also discusses his seed investment in Supabase and its sponsorship of Latent Space. Chapters 0:00 Welcome and why agents love Supabase 5:23 Paul Copplestone and Ant Wilson 6:39 Compute beside the database 8:05 OrioleDB and Multigres 12:50 Scaling up, scaling out, and Turso 17:53 Developer marketing and memes 23:15 The launch and the migration 31:03 Vectors, growth, and AI recommendations 41:43 Product-led sales and enterprise growth 49:38 Live migrations and analytics 58:43 Agent-ready local development 1:06:43 Community and company workflows Links and show notes Supabase: supabase.link/AYNPC9B Supabase Select: select.supabase.com/ Build from code and Supabase Compute: supabase.com/blog/select-2026-build-anything Operate with your own agent: supabase.com/blog/select-2026-operate-with-confidence Multigres and OrioleDB: supabase.com/blog/select-2026-scale-without-limits Turso acquisition: supabase.com/blog/supabase-is-acquiring-turso Declarative schemas: supabase.com/blog/declarative-schemas-2-0-pg-delta Alpha launch postmortem: supabase.com/blog/alpha-launch-postmortem Supabase’s Series F: supabase.com/blog/supabase-series-f Latent Space: latent.space/