classy as always, Abhi!
You totally can build a custom agent to do data analysis. And for simple setups, it can work well. Hex is a lot more than just a model wrapper and harness though.
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Barry McCardel
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Barry McCardel
@barrald
co-founder and CEO of Hex (https://t.co/hbgguInF1h / @_hex_tech) - former @PalantirTech @formationbio - personal site: https://t.co/c38nDG5Dfl
San Francisco, CA Katılım Ağustos 2011
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@j_schottenstein @_hex_tech @barrald @crcolgrove @isidoremiller Did y'all try building one with DeepAgents? I'm the biggest Hex bear -- every attempt I've had or seen at a custom Agent outperforms Hex.
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appreciation post for @_hex_tech AI. Makes me feel like i have my own analyst who can answers questions even at the oddest hours of the day. y'all crushed it!
@barrald @crcolgrove @isidoremiller
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@itunpredictable @AmplifyPartners I can't imagine anyone better to do this
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We at @AmplifyPartners are launching a writing fellowship.
It's for technical people (devs, researchers, etc.) with a focus area who want 2-3 months, some money, and my editing to research + write.
Help us fight back against the onslaught of slop and dumb attention-maxxing.
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literally my dream feature
Olivia Koshy@oliviakoshy
every am everything I need to know is sent via DM to me. a metric dips, a feature usage spikes, an critical deal update? nicely summarized & I can just ask follow ups directly from slack this is a pms dream 🫶 introducing Agent Tasks in @_hex_tech
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@thaiscbranco_ @CRV @AmplifyPartners Un-F-marketing! Let's go!
I'm so excited for you guys and honored to be with you on the journey :)
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We’re excited to introduce Taste Labs.
Our mission is to end AI slop. We’re building the data and infrastructure layer to give AI models and agents taste.
And today we’re coming out of stealth, announcing our $18.5M seed funding, co-led by @CRV and @AmplifyPartners
AI has nailed objective domains and made it easy to generate anything. But it still feels off. Now, the challenge is judgement. What fits, what feels like you, what’s GREAT. This requires turning a fuzzy, subjective domain into something we can measure and codify. We’re starting with design.
There are two sides to cracking this, the foundation model layer and the agent layer:
- We’ve already been working with the top frontier labs to evaluate and improve their models, crafting the right post-training data and RL environments.
- We’ve also been working with app-layer companies to build the context and verification tools for their agents to produce better, more on-brand, more creative outputs.
We want a future where AI feels right.
If you’re passionate about this mission, join us!
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"Everyone gets FDEs wrong.
The job of an FDE isn't to make the product work, it's to accelerate customer adoption and time-to-value.
If you need FDEs just to deliver the product, you're not running a software company, you're running a services business with a bad product." @matanSF
Do you agree and what do people misunderstand most about what it takes to do FDE motion well? @ssankar @chadwahl @nikogrupen @barrald @lkothari @LeoMehr @zkevinbai
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the point of FDE is figuring out what your product is, not just how to implement it faster
Shyam Sankar@ssankar
The first fundamental truth is that FDE is not a role, it is a product strategy. It has to originate from the fount of the product org. You judge an FDE org by the fruits they bear! What new product was discovered, what Thielan secrets were mined and refined into weapons grade product? (but hey, what do I know about FDE 🤷♂️)
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Fable 5 broke our evals!
It fully saturated our own "Shorelane" test set, so we had to scramble to create new ones for @_hex_tech
It's the first model since 4.5 to show a meaningful step forward – and a big step toward more complex and long-horizon analysis tasks.
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@letjudycook lol I literally just wrote that myself, zero % ai!!
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actually LOL'd
Barry McCardel@barrald
A few years ago I went on a walk with @bernhardsson around NYC, when he explained the ideas that became @modal. I was energized by his technical depth and vision, but also... uncertain about how big this could get. Cloud compute primitives already exist... what's the long-term edge? Well, it turns out the answer was "insanely strong execution, deep customer empathy, and showing up at the perfect moment for agents" – and their parabolic growth proves what's possible when you put all of that together. Seeing @modal's journey as a friend, angel investor, and customer has been wild and inspiring and I'm so so pumped for them!
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@barrald @oliviakoshy is this what you did for the other 4 Barry? How many olde English nerdcore tats do you HAVe exactly
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while everyone’s debating shoes on at sf parties my b2b saas employer is full sending an open bar & tattoo artist
come thru
Hex@_hex_tech
Tattoos are back at Club Hex come hang out with us (and get your tattoo) at @Snowflake Summit from June 1-3. Link in the comments ⬇️
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@hamiltonulmer @oliviakoshy Hamilton let's get matching tats
I'm imagining "malleable viz" in olde English font across our lower backs
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A few years ago I went on a walk with @bernhardsson around NYC, when he explained the ideas that became @modal.
I was energized by his technical depth and vision, but also... uncertain about how big this could get. Cloud compute primitives already exist... what's the long-term edge?
Well, it turns out the answer was "insanely strong execution, deep customer empathy, and showing up at the perfect moment for agents" – and their parabolic growth proves what's possible when you put all of that together.
Seeing @modal's journey as a friend, angel investor, and customer has been wild and inspiring and I'm so so pumped for them!
Erik Bernhardsson@bernhardsson
Today we're announcing our Series C funding: $355M at a $4.65B valuation, led by some great investors @generalcatalyst and @Redpoint. We've had insane growth in the last year, but we're still very early. So proud of the team and what we have built so far!
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@matt_slotnick I'm very burned out by this discourse but I'll say that in a *true* FDE model (what Palantir *actually* did) the FDE is literally a PM because they're figuring out what to build (not just deploying a thing that's built)
barry.ooo/posts/fde-cult…
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I’d bet a lot of money that in 18 months, FDE is going to be the new PM in that it’ll be called “mini-CEO” (rightly or wrongly)
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Not enough people are talking about how much AI is impacting the role of data science.
I was chatting with a DS friend, and he said that most of his team's work now is reviewing half-assed AI data analysis from PMs and engineers. And that 50% of the time, that analysis is wrong.
The role is becoming less fun.
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when I first heard of @baseten they were basically a competitor
but then I met @tuhinone and I liked him, and when I heard they were pivoting to inference, I was relieved because I didn't want to compete against him
and then he hired @DannieHerz and I was angry because I wish I had thought of it
and now they're a critical partner for us as we embrace our own many model future at @_hex_tech
I'm so happy for all their success and very excited to share what we've been working on with them!
Tuhin Srivastava@tuhinone
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@n2parko very grateful for all your feedback + partnership Nate!
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this has rewired the way we work with data
Olivia Koshy@oliviakoshy
introducing in @_hex_tech: Generative Data Apps backed by code, so you can build anything you want! a dashboard, an editorial, a customer prezo - you name it, you can build it 💜 integrated with your data team's context + built w/ governance, security and observability top of mind
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The most wondrous and terrifying part of 2026 is the opportunity to re-invent whole swaths of @_hex_tech.
We're in the process of throwing away features we spent years on – and deeply replacing agents.
Generative data apps are a first step – with much more coming soon!
Olivia Koshy@oliviakoshy
introducing in @_hex_tech: Generative Data Apps backed by code, so you can build anything you want! a dashboard, an editorial, a customer prezo - you name it, you can build it 💜 integrated with your data team's context + built w/ governance, security and observability top of mind
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@anshublog @prukalpa @Snowflake @databricks @Workato Oh Foundry Catalog is more equivalent of like a database catalog i.e., manages table metadata
In any case “unbundling Palantir” is an interesting angle on what you’re doing – I’d argue the value of Palantir is the bundle!
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@barrald We are the data control layer - security and privacy - as data flows across datastores, models, and agents.
The catalog is replaced by my friend @prukalpa.
The data layer is @Snowflake or @databricks.
The orchestration is @Workato etc.
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Unbundling Palantir.
Bundling and unbundling. This is the way.
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