Move Fast and Don't Break Things: Scaling Databases for the AI Era — PlanetScale

Ben Dicken of PlanetScale argues that teams can move fast without breaking production, combining isolation, redundancy, sharding, back pressure, and decoupling with AI agent workflows such as VSchema-driven sharding, Traffic Control budgets, schema branching, and one-click reverts. His core claim is that good developer experience produces good primitives for AI.