Barry McCardel
@barrald
co-founder and CEO of Hex (http://hex.tech / @_hex_tech) - former @PalantirTech @formationbio - personal site: http://barry.ooo
“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.” – @crcolgrove, Co-founder and CTO of @_hex_tech #SnowflakeSummit
Outside of ChatGPT, @_hex_tech 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
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…
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…
the c in yc stands for cursor
no one told us to wear blazers
in great company at the @Redpoint InfraRed 100 event - including the homies @barrald and @gorkemyurt
I love @poyark'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…
tbh the most noteworthy part of this post is a rare Scott Forstall sighting x.com/joshm/status/1…
I wrote about @arcinternet: 1. What happened to Arc browser? 2. Will we open source Arc? 3. Why not pursue AI within Arc? 4. What’s the point of Dia? And more! Essay in next tweet. Thx for being patient. We wanted to be very open & honest. Took time to express it clearly…
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
turns out, getting AI to work well for data is hard...
Some elements of this LLM SQL benchmark are really cool— perf is something I don't think is talked about enough— but the actual execution of the evals is flawed and a bit misleading IMO. biggest issue is it doesn't validate data, just query text exactness. more thoughts🧵
new top of the "most evil startup pitch I've ever gotten" leaderboard
I met @trucklos a few years ago, and over time had become a big fan of what he and the @hashboardhq team have accomplished. They've built a delightful product and punched way above their weight. We kept in touch and realized how much our visions and roadmaps were converging –…