The Changelog · Tuesday, August 25, 2026
PlanetScale's platform is designed for safety, enabling both humans and AI agents to operate and deploy changes with confidence. The company highlighted features like database branching, online schema changes with rollbacks, and traffic control, which are crucial for handling complex operations, including those driven by AI.
“this is the thing that's really cool about PlanetScale is we built this for humans. That, the one of my slides that got shared quite a bit on Twitter was that we built this for the flaky's agents of Hall humans.”
“Like, we have database branching, online schema changes, we have rollbacks for those schema changes, we block agents from pushing, um, schemers into prod that would break queries.”
“We have traffic control that isolates workloads and does QOS for databases. Like, we have all these like incredible features to make databases extremely safe for humans or agents.”