Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

Welcome everyone. 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 lot of fun along the way. On this episode, Amazon CTO, Warner Vogels, stops by to help us explore his tech predictions for 2026 and beyond. Will companionship be redefined by consumer robots? Will Quantum Safe become the only safe worth talking about? Is this the dawn of the Renaissance developer? We are infinitely curious why Warner came to this particular set of conclusions. Are you? But first, a big thank you to our partners at fly.io, the public cloud built for developers who ship. We love Fly. You might too. Learn all about it at fly.io. Okay. Warner Vogels predicts the future 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 sandbox or 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 copied 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 agent to postgres service, and let your agents work at the speed they expect, not the speed of the old way. The new way, agent to 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. Well, everyone, we have a treat. We're here with the CTO of Amazon. My gosh. Talking about predictions every year you have five. They mostly come somewhat true in a couple years. So you're pretty accurate, Werner. Welcome to the show again. The last time you're here was for the no sequel SmackDown back about twelve years ago, Jared? Ten years ago, was it? …