new top of the "most evil startup pitch I've ever gotten" leaderboard

Outside of ChatGPT, Hex might be the AI tool that's changed my life the most I literally spin up custom reports within minutes. it's actually insane - i used to take hours on these things. if you're doing ANY analysis in python/SQL it's such a no brainer

lots of people have been trying to figure out the catalog story for iceberg and it turns out maybe that was the wrong approach all along? this just instinctively feels like such a better direction ducklake.select

“For years, Hex has partnered with Snowflake to bring AI tools to data workflows, helping our users answer the deepest and most impactful questions for their business.” – Caitlin Colgrove, Co-founder and CTO of Hex #SnowflakeSummit

I love Kyle Poyar's report on pricing – but I think a lot of the excitement about "outcome based pricing" for AI apps but it feels like a redux of the usage-based pricing hype cycle of 2021, where everyone was sniped by the elegance of perfect price discrimination but forgot to ask

no one told us to wear blazers

I think anyone describing themselves as "Cursor for X" is ngmi from the jump Cursor sells into last market on earth where: – most work is done locally, so no need for security approvals etc. - users have discretion in tool use, so no need for team approval process etc. - LLMs

Under-appreciated aspect Windsurf is how they lost PMF over the course of the whole saga, as headless background agents opened eyes to world beyond IDEs The appeal went from traditional "buy whole company for product and team" to "just the team" because the product got way less

extrapolating, we’re <2 years away from VCs hosting pizza parties for middle school computer clubs

jason calacanis is the jim cramer of tech

shoutout to pete dejoy and team for having fun and not running the traditional crisis response playbook

I love single sign on because you only have to sign on once, 8 times a day

Shhh don’t tell anyone we haven’t announced it yet!

when I started Hex Dylan Field was already one of my heroes for building such an incredible product but as I’ve gotten to know him over the years, I’ve been even more inspired by him as a person I can only dream of being as kind, thoughtful, and convicted as Dylan is. His advice