In this interview, Anaiya Raisinghani of MongoDB Ventures sits down with Chintan Turakhia, Senior Director of Engineering at Coinbase, to discuss the evolution of the Base app and the future of AI-driven development. Chintan shares how Coinbase has successfully compressed development timelines from months to minutes by fundamentally reimagining their internal workflows and leveraging tools like MongoDB Atlas. Learn why traditional metrics like "lines of code" are becoming obsolete and how "agentic infrastructure" is replacing manual coordination in high-scale engineering teams. The conversation also covers the core thesis of on-chain consumer products, the role of tokenization in the modern economy, and what to expect from the upcoming MongoDB .local San Francisco event. 00:00:00 Introduction to Coinbase & MongoDB Ventures 00:00:51 The Evolution of the Base App 00:01:52 Reimagining Consumer On-Chain Products 00:03:30 Building the Crypto Ecosystem & Encrypted Chat 00:05:12 Bringing Crypto and Tokenization to Everyday Users 00:06:28 Powering Scale: Why Coinbase Uses MongoDB 00:08:21 How MongoDB Atlas Accelerates Innovation 00:09:40 Strategies for Reducing Developer Friction 00:11:00 Leading AI Innovation & Internal Workflows 00:12:44 The "Show, Don't Tell" Approach to AI Adoption 00:15:01 Changing the "Game of Work" with Agents 00:18:02 Identifying and Solving Engineering Bottlenecks 00:22:21 Real-World AI Use Cases: From Engineering to Lifestyle 00:25:39 Looking Ahead: MongoDB .local San Francisco 2026 Subscribe to the MongoDB for Developers YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MongoDBDevelopers?sub_confirmation=1 Sign-up for a free cluster → https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register Subscribe to MongoDB YouTube→ https://mdb.link/subscribe Visit Mongodb.com → https://mdb.link/MongoDB Read the MongoDB Blog → https://mdb.link/Blog Read the Developer Blog → https://mdb.link/developerblog MongoDB for Developers YouTube Channel → https://www.youtube.com/@MongoDBDevelopers

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