Readit NewsHey folks! I'm the Head of DevRel at DataStax and we couldn't be more excited to be joining forces with Langflow to help more developers easily build and deploy AI applications.
As part of this announcement, Langflow has released an alpha of their 1.0 product. Langflow is free, open source and vendor agnostic and we'd love for you to take it for a spin.
It's a simple `pip install` and we're hear to capture any and all feedback:
crabasa commented on DataStax just bought our startup Langflow medium.com/logspace/langf... · Posted by u/rodrigonader
Hey folks I'm the Head of DevRel @ DataStax here and just wanted to share to the HN community that in conjunction with this big acquisition news, the LF team has shipped 1.0-alpha of Langflow.
It's a simple `pip install` and the team would love any and all feedback!
For anyone who prefer consuming video content to text, here's a recorded livestream of engineers from DataStax and Langchain breaking down this app in detail:
crabasa commented on Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio cnbc.com/2024/01/08/twili... · Posted by u/ceohockey60
I worked at Twilio for nearly 10 years and it's hard to overstate what a gift it was to work there and see Jeff operate as CEO up-close.
He created an environment where (at our best) we could have fun doing work that had a real impact, and we could it with people we enjoyed doing the work with. He pushed us to be creative to authentically empower and inspire developers. Wanna build a video game that teaches developers how to code and use Twilio? Let's try it! Wanna build an AI application with Tony Hawk and have Tony Hawk debug the code live on stage? Sure!
And Jeff would always be spending time with developer tools and Twilio's products himself, to the point that he could live code at the drop of a hat to show off what we'd been working on. This meant his own understanding of developers and their problems never ceased to amaze me.
But more than all of that, he was a rare CEO that led with empathy, humility and care.
Thank you, jeffiel. We can't wait to see what you build next.
People who weren't there don't understand, but the world before "Ask Your Developer" was completely different than the world we live in today where developers are at the heart of how decisions are made, products are built and how the world itself is changing.
I joined Twilio in 2012 and I saw first hand how pivotal Jeff was in supporting the idea that in order for a platform to be successful it needed to treat developers like first class citizens, and not simply the recipient of a "directive to integrate" from the CTO.
This idea wasn't simply a fist bump to devs for cool points, it was a recognition that developers themselves held the key to innovation and creating radically new things. This culture led to entirely new ways of building API docs, designing developer dashboards, creating developer events, and so on.
So many of these things have become mainstream and the new baseline for platform companies that people forget how unlikely it was in the beginning and how hard Jeff had to fight to keep the company from treating developers as a means, and not as an end. And I think all developers who are happily hacking away on a free tier of a cool API with excellent docs and a vibrant developer community should tip their hat to a person who helped make this normal and influenced a generation of leaders to do the same.
Why did we build this? We wanted to streamline the process for getting folks up-and-running. No need to install Python, download dependencies or configure your environment. Just install Langflow Desktop and start building.
We're launching a preview of Langflow Desktop today for MacOS. Please download it and take it for a spin! We can't wait to hear what you think of it, please feel free to comment and the team and I will respond.