> 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. Workday was an HR platform five years ago. It still an HR platform today.
fsniper•53m ago
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.
afavour•47m ago
> 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 fascinated them for years.
fsniper•31m ago
> 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.
chanux•47m ago
I came here to say this. I was chuckling thinking that this is how I should write my LinkedIn intro.
Also, anyone who loves coming across Workday and friends (enemies) when applying for jobs?
gomoboo•44m ago
That Workday description reads like the resumes one writes when desperate and the job search has expanded into totally unrelated professions.
pbw•57m ago
Workday is a disaster, at least the version we have.
kobelb•55m ago
You don’t wanna wait 60 seconds, 3 times to submit PTO?
chanux•43m ago
The other day my friend ranted to me how he hates their company system for applying for PTO. Since he said he only uses it to apply for PTO, I was wondering if it really deserves that much wrath.
I think I now understand.
geoffbp•35m ago
It is a bit like Jira in that it’s flexible for different company use cases, but most people (especially engineers) dislike working with it
namegulf•56m ago
Got confused first reading the title of this post (thought someone joking about a pipedream)
This is interesting acquisition, a integration platform to boost their AI offering.
dustyharddrive•17m ago
Great news for this site's most prolific spammer!
haolez•15m ago
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.
mk89•1m ago
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).
xgulfie•15m ago
> Pipedream is a platform for building AI agents
It is? Last I used it, it was a serverless event-driven pipeline platform
afavour•1h ago
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. Workday was an HR platform five years ago. It still an HR platform today.
fsniper•53m ago
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.
afavour•47m ago
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 fascinated them for years.
fsniper•31m ago
I am not fascinated by that part, I am honestly scared for my future.
chanux•47m ago
Also, anyone who loves coming across Workday and friends (enemies) when applying for jobs?
gomoboo•44m ago