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Paul Copplestone

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Paul Copplestone has been a guest on The Changelog (2 times) , Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) , Open Source Startup Podcast , Equity , Latent Space , Scaling DevTools , In Depth and Thinking Elixir Podcast .

Recently: “Why Agents Love Supabase” on Latent Space (October 2026); “How Supabase became the essential infrastructure for the AI era | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)” on In Depth (June 2026); “Supabase CEO on the "painful" decisions that built a $5B company” on Equity (November 2025); “Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase - don't kill your channel” on Scaling DevTools (July 2025); “It all starts with Postgres (Interview)” on The Changelog (July 2024); “788: Supabase: Open Source Firebase for Fullstack JS Apps” on Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) (June 2024).

What They Said

“Building software is debatably a solved problem. Maintaining, like keeping things running, is a whole different beast.” — Paul Copplestone, Latent Space

The Supabase CEO agrees with the Latent Space host that AI for site reliability engineering, keeping production systems running, is one of the hardest areas for agent startups and hasn't been cracked yet.

Latent Space · 2026-10-28 Permalink → Listen →
Latent Space Around 1:15:37 into the episode
Paul Copplestone

All of those people, please apply it. Hopefully they listen to the podcast. Yeah,

Speaker 1

yeah, no. I mean, yeah, we probably do have a lot of gray beards in SREs. I think one of I have been on the record as saying AI SRE is one of the hardest categories for agent startups. I think I might be wrong soon, but so far it's been correct. Okay, AI has not cracked SRE for whatever reason. No,

Paul Copplestone

no, no, no, not yet. I agree. Like building software is debatable, solve problem. Maintaining, like keeping things running is a whole different beast.

Speaker 1

Well, okay. Well, thank you for keeping things running for everyone else. You guys, congrats on your journey, man. Like, I'm so proud to be your friend. Thanks, guys. And an investor. And it's just like, just see the progress. I cannot wait for the IPO, whenever that is. It looks like it's going to…

Ant Wilson

Definitely, man.

Speaker 1

Thanks for that. Thanks, Javanese.

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