Ajay Kulkarni, co-founder and CEO of Tiger Data (formerly Timescale), joins Adam Stacoviak to talk about agentic Postgres. Not the buzzword version. The actual implementation: agents running inside the database, a CLI called tiger-cli on GitHub, and a growing pattern around API, CLI, MCP, and Skills that lets you talk to your database like a peer.
The conversation earns its runtime by tracing how Kulkarni's personal values calcified into company culture at Timescale, through the enterprise grind, the rename to Tiger Data, and the critics along the way. The rebranding alone signals a strategic shift worth understanding, and Kulkarni is specific about the reasoning.
Read the full episode for the detail on how fast the idea-to-shipped cycle has actually gotten, and what Kulkarni means when he says you can now have a real conversation with your database. The tiger-cli repo and the Agentic Postgres page at tigerdata.com are linked in the show notes and worth opening alongside the transcript.
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