The world of open source metadata (Interview)

Welcome friends. I'm Jared and you are listening to the change log where each week Adam and I interview the hackers, the leaders, and the innovators of the software world. We pick their brains, we learn from their failures, we get inspired by their accomplishments, and we have a whole lot of fun along the way. This episode features Andrew Nesbitt, who builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure. He's been exploring the world of open source metadata for over a decade. First, with libraries.io and now with ecosystems, which tracks 12 plus million packages, 287,000,000 repos, 24,500,000,000 dependencies, and 1,900,000 maintainers. What has Andrew learned from all of this? Who is using this open dataset and how does he hope others can build on top top of it all? You're about to find out. But first, a big thank you to our partners at fly.io, the public cloud built for developers who ship. We love fly. We probably will too. Learn more at fly.io. Okay. Andrew Nesbitt talking ecosystems on the change log. Let's do it. Well, friends, agentic Postgres is here and from our friends over at Tiger Data. This is the very first database built for agents, and it's built to let you build faster. You know, a fun side note is 80% of Claude was built with AI. Over a year ago, 25% of Google's code was AI generated. It's safe to say that now it's probably close to a 100%. Most people I talk to, most developers I talk to right now, almost all their code is being generated. That's a different world. Here's the deal. Agents are the new developers. They don't click. They don't scroll. They call. They retrieve. They parallelize. They plug in your infrastructure to places you need it to perform, but your database is probably still thinking about humans only because that's kinda where Postgres is at. Tiger Data's philosophy is that when your agents need to spin up sandboxes, run migrations, query huge volumes of vector and text data, well, normal Postgres, it might choke, and so they fix that. Here's where we're at right now. Agentic Postgres delivers these three big leaps, native search and retrieval, instant zero copy forks, and MCP server plus your CLI plus a cool free tier. Now if this is intriguing at all, head over to tigerdata.com. Install the CLI, just three commands, spin up an Aginta Postgres service, and let your agents work at the speed they expect, not the speed of the old way. The new way, Aginta Postgres, it's built for agents, is designed to elevate your developer experience, and build the next big thing. Again, go to tigerdata.com to learn more. Today, we're joined by, for us, an old friend, but a long time no talk, Andrew Nesbitt is here with us. And, you know, Andrew, I came across ecosystems, which is eco. No. Ecosyste.ms domain. Nice domain hack. Hard to say out …