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AI After Dark: How AI Turned a Designer Into a CTO

Kyle Ledbetter, Co-Founder and CTO of Mercury Fund portfolio company, Dreambase, and Alex Gras dive into building a Dream Team of data agents on top of Supabase, agent orchestration, and more.

Going from designer to CTO sounds like an impossible career pivot, but Kyle Ledbetter, Co-Founder and CTO of Mercury Fund portfolio company, Dreambase, walks through how AI handed him the permission slip he didn't know he needed. Kyle and Alex Gras dive into building a Dream Team of data agents on top of Supabase, why dashboards are just the Trojan horse, agent orchestration, the case for CLI as the default interface, and the slightly terrifying moment his wife's AI generated Instagram feed knew her better than he did.

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Alex Gras
April 29, 2026