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Sai? What do you think was the difference?

Has anyone ever experienced the alternative? to building products from scratch, growing a business, without the drama?

“ AI is the substrate on which future software gets built”

- when you see the word substrate in corporate speak, you know where that’s from…

could I get a link to the Kepler finance site? googling for "Kepler financial" yields 5-6 other finserv companies

When I read “Cursor for Files” my mind went to “app for reading and diffing content (i.e markdown) which I was very excited about.

Is Azure support on the roadmap?

Somebody said this the other day on HN, but we really are living in the golden age of Postgres.

You should pitch this to David Gelb / whoever is responsible for Chef’s Table on Netflix

> Borrow the best core concepts:

Schemas as application code means you get version control, PR review and type‑safe changes. A query builder that feels like SQL and lets you write “real” ClickHouse queries with IDE autocompletion and compile‑time checking. Local development and CI should mirror production so you can preview schema changes before they apply to prod.

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I believe this is what dbt set out to accomplish. They came at the problem from the point of view of a data transformation language that is essentially a pseudo type checked SQL for analytical engines with some additional batteries included (ie macros) but the motivation was similar. I’ve always felt that what has held dbt back from more mainstream adoption by the dev community is because they’ve prioritized data transformation over data access to the application layer - ie business intelligence tools over a web app.

Moosestack looks interesting- will definitely check it out.

we need a flag button for “written by AI”.

I’m at this stage where I’m fine with AI generated content. Sure, the verbosity sucks - but there’s an interesting idea here, but make it clear that you’ve used AI, and show your prompts.

this isn’t vibe coding. This is something completely new. I call it “flex coding.”

heck I built a full app in an afternoon AND I was a good dad?

> I'd wander into my office, check what Claude had built, test it real quick. If it worked, great! Commit and push. "Now build the server connection UI," I'd say, and wander back out.

Made breakfast. Claude coded.

Played with my son. Claude coded.

Watched some TV. Claude coded.

Every hour or so, I'd pop back in. Five minutes of testing. One minute of feedback.

switched from Pocket to Readwise Reader last year, haven’t looked back. It’s a paid app ($10/month) but totally worth it IMO

This looks really great.

And also how “internal” business intelligence/operations tools should work. search first to find relevant artifacts - “top 10 customers in AMEA”, followed by agentic verification and enrichment.

Congrats on the launch!

This is so good…

“… you can find frameworks not just in software, but also in ordinary life. If you buy package holidays, you're buying a framework - they transport you to some place, put you in a hotel, feed you and your activities have to fit into the shape provided by the framework (say, go into the pool and swim there). If you travel independently, you are composing libraries. You have to book your flights, find your accommodation and arrange your program (all using different libraries). It is more work, but you are in control - and you can arrange things exactly the way you need.”

13in MacBook Air (new M4, with 24GB RAM) and Mac Mini as desktop the best setup I’ve ever had. I debated between the 13in and 15inch MacBook Airs and am so glad I went with the 13.

Why a US-only release? Have they done that for other research previews?

Wonder what’s changed recently..

Congrats on the launch Dex! A long way from the Metalytics days.

Can’t wait to try this out.

A counterpoint, from someone who’s worked on SaaS billing /MRR reporting for 10+ years - it’s usually more complicated than just exposing an API endpoint for precalculated MRR by month. Most analysis requires drilling into dimensions of MRR growth - by cohort, by billing period, etc - and so while Stripe exposing an API for MRR could be helpful, it won’t cover most of the cases for proper financial analysis for a SaaS business. There’s also the complication of how MRR is computed across companies and domains - it’s not a GAAP metric and no standardized definitions.

Would love to see a plugin/adapter for Snowflake.

BigQuery has a neat feature where it estimates the cost __before__ you run a query, which has often come in handy.

Unreal:

> Allred tweeted that the school achieved a 100 percent job-placement rate in one of its cohorts, and later acknowledged in a private message that the sample size was just one student.

Of note:

“ Six of the eight authors were born outside the United States; the other two are children of two green-card-carrying Germans who were temporarily in California and a first-generation American whose family had fled persecution, respectively.”

This is brilliant.

I love that this is trending on HN. LLMs be damned. We still have lots of “simple” problems to be solved, like how to effectively write and share an ERD.

Can’t wait for the HBO special on SBF.

My money is on Jonah Hill to play SBF.

Why move off BigQuery?

> In our experience, the BI layer is the weakest part of the modern data stack. The BI layer has a poor developer experience, and decision makers don’t really like the outputs they get. It turns out, these two issues are closely related. The drag and drop experience is so slow and low-leverage that the only way to get all the content on the page is to push a lot of cognitive load onto the end user: global filters, drill down modals, grids of charts without context. Like most users, business people hate that shit. And because the production process isn’t in code, the outputs are hard to version control and test—so dashboards break, results are internally inconsistent, and so on, in just the way that software would suck if you didn’t version control and test it.

If I could upvote this a 100 times, I would. I've felt this pain everyday with Looker, Mode, Metabase, every other BI tool that I've tried.