SaaS vendors do these business value assessments, which are useful to the executive buyer and the vendor. The issue I find with them is customers don't want to do them in collaboration with the vendor since the vendor will use that to justify higher prices. 'Outcome' and 'business value' seem somewhat synonymous - so maybe need to focus on the business value more closely (and all the modelling that goes into that). I don't know if all of the billing needs to go through this, but perhaps discounts or bonuses could - at the very least helping with retention.
Readit Newssys13 commented on Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products · Posted by u/benjsm
Glad to see focus being put on keeping humans in the drivers seat, democratizing coding with the help of AI. The syntax is probably still too verbose to be easily accessible, but I like the overall approach.
I don't know if this is feedback for Kiro per se or more feedback for this category of applications as a whole, but I've personally noticed that the biggest barrier holding me back from giving an earnest look at new coding agents are the custom rules I've set up w/ my existing agents. I have extensively used Copilot, Continue, Cursor, Cline, Aider, Roo Code, and Claude Code. I've just finished porting my rules over to Claude Code and this is something I do not want to do again [even if it's as simple as dragging and dropping files].
Companies would benefit a lot by creating better onboarding flows that migrate users from other applications. It should either bring in the rules 1:1 or have an llm agent transform them into a format that works better for the agent.
Agents.md is at least used by both codex and GitHub copilot. VSCode has its own thing for instruction files and Claude.md is also its own thing :(
sys13 commented on RFK Jr.: HHS moves to restore public trust in vaccines wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-hh... · Posted by u/ceejayoz
This is a step back for science in the service of public health - I'm sad for the many children that will die needless deaths
sys13 commented on Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B upstartsmedia.com/p/scoop... · Posted by u/ko_pivot
Databricks acquired bit.io and subsequently shut it down quite fast. Afaik bit.io had a very small team and the founder was a serial entrepreneur who is not going to stick around and he did not. I am not sure who from bit.io is still around at databricks.
If I am guessing right, Motherduck will likely be acquired by GCP because most of the founding team was ex-BQ. Snowflake purchased Modin and polars is still quite immature to be acquisition ready. So, what does this leave us with. There is also EDB who is competing in enterprise Postgres space.
Folks I know in the industry are not very happy with databricks. Databricks themselves was hinting people that that they would be potentially acquired by Azure as Azure tries to compete in the data warehouse space. But everyone become an AI company which left Databricks in an awkward space. Their bdev team is not bestest from my limited interactions with them (lots of starbucks drinkers and let me get back to you after a 3 month PTO), so they do not know who or how to lead them to an AI pivot. With cash to burn from overinvestment and the snowflake/databricks conf coming up fast they needed a big announcement and this is that big announcement.
Should have sobered up before writing this though. But who cares.
Very unlikely that Databricks would be acquired by Azure. So much of their business is on AWS, and they are invested in by AWS/Azure/GCP.
sys13 commented on Preview: Amazon S3 Tables and Lakehouse in DuckDB duckdb.org/2025/03/14/pre... · Posted by u/hn1986
Wonder why not Delta Lake instead, since Iceberg will merge with Delta
sys13 commented on Show HN: Program Explorer, a container playground programexplorer.org/... · Posted by u/aconz2
Feedback on the name: I didn't think that it would be about containers. The other platforms you mentioned are more descriptive (jsfiddle, db-fiddle, Go playground, and Rust playground)
sys13 commented on TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsl... · Posted by u/franky47
Not only is Dimitri an amazing engineer - he's also great at building community and event/video production. Michigan Typescript meetups and videos have a level of polish that goes over and above
sys13 commented on TypeScript types can run DOOM [video] youtube.com/watch?v=0mCsl... · Posted by u/franky47
Where can we see these updates?
Michigan Typescript has an active discord: https://discord.com/invite/DHtwNDTwrR
What's sad here is that this dispute isn't likely to make Wordpress any better, but rather send money to lawyers and reduce enthusiasm for the OSS project.