Ajay Kulkarni, co-founder and CEO of Tiger Data (formerly Timescale), joined Adam Stacoviak to talk about what agentic Postgres actually looks like in production. Not the concept. The shipped thing. Tiger Data has built agent capabilities directly into the database layer, and the conversation gets specific about what it means to let an agent talk to your database through an API, CLI, MCP, or Skills interface.
The episode earns its runtime by tracing how Kulkarni's values became Tiger Data's culture without deliberate design, how the Timescale-to-Tiger Data rename happened, and how fast a team can move from idea to shipped feature in 2025. Those threads matter because they explain why this company is building this way, not just what they built. The tiger-cli repo on GitHub is open and worth examining alongside the listen.
If you have written off 'agents plus database' as another hype cycle, this episode is the counterargument. Kulkarni is specific about the tradeoffs, the architecture, and where the real friction lives. Read the Agentic Postgres page at tigerdata.com before or after. Either order works.
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