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Workday to acquire Pipedream

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Re: Workday to acquire Pipedream

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I suppose all comes down to who runs the leading (or any) investment companies. Money people are not known to be technically literate enough for not being fooled by magic (any sufficiently advanced technology). They are facinated by llms that they are pouring down money to AI related companies. Can you blame them? Can’t deny, I am also fascinated by llms.

> They are facinated by llms that they are pouring down money to AI related companies. Can you blame them? Can’t deny, I am also fascinated by llms. I don’t think they’re fascinated by LLMs in the way the average Hacker News user is. They are fascinated by the pipedream (intended) of LLMs enabling them to lay off masses of workers and having AI do the work instead. It fascinates them the same way offshoring has fasci…

> They are fascinated by the pipedream (intended) of LLMs enabling them to lay off masses of workers and having AI do the work instead

I am not fascinated by that part, I am honestly scared for my future.

Re: Workday to acquire Pipedream

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My company uses Workday. It is integrated with our EntraID SSO. If you leave a tab open for a few minutes, it will close your session automatically, which means logging you out of Microsoft 365 altogether. Simply bizarre. Maybe more AI will help them.

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My company uses Workday. It is integrated with our EntraID SSO. If you leave a tab open for a few minutes, it will close your session automatically, which means logging you out of Microsoft 365 altogether. Simply bizarre. Maybe more AI will help them.

This is probably done to invalidate your session token, which is required in some industries (see banks, logging you out after 5 minutes of inactivity).

Re: Workday to acquire Pipedream

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> Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream, a leading integration platform for AI agents Pipedream indeed! It blows my mind that every company has decided to call itself an “AI platform” but it blows my mind even more that the stock market apparently believes them when they say it. W…

I was gonna try to contradict you by looking up Workday’s multiple and showing that it is valued like an HR company, but holy smokes…

Their multiple is 105 lol

Re: Workday to acquire Pipedream

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> Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), the enterprise AI platform for managing people, money, and agents, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream, a leading integration platform for AI agents Pipedream indeed! It blows my mind that every company has decided to call itself an “AI platform” but it blows my mind even more that the stock market apparently believes them when they say it. W…

If their product wasnt an absolute dumpster fire, id give em a pass.
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