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Workday to acquire Pipedream
- dustyharddrive 11mo agoGreat news for this site's most prolific spammer!
- newusertoday 11mo agoi don't get it can you elaborate?
- jusonchan81 11mo agoProbably referring to the founder of pipedream
- dustyharddrive 11mo agoThe founder... runs a crossposting bot here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Atodsacerdoti&sort=byDate&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... spammed package maintainers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31588316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31588316
- skeptrune 11mo agoAgents are coming. What's an agent? Who knows. But know they're coming.
- afavour 11mo ago> 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 11mo agoI 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 11mo 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 11mo 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 11mo agoI 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 11mo agoThat Workday description reads like the resumes one writes when desperate and the job search has expanded into totally unrelated professions.
- johnfn 11mo ago"managing people, money and agents" yes, that makes total sense, agents are managed exactly the same ways that you manage people or money, I don't see anyth- WHAT AM I READING?!??
- pbw 11mo agoWorkday is a disaster, at least the version we have.
- kobelb 11mo agoYou don’t wanna wait 60 seconds, 3 times to submit PTO?
- chanux 11mo agoThe 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.
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- YZF 11mo agoWe use it and I never had any issues applying for PTO...
- geoffbp 11mo agoIt is a bit like Jira in that it’s flexible for different company use cases, but most people (especially engineers) dislike working with it
- mk89 11mo agoFor me it's just incomplete. We used to have Successfactors and although the UI was less fancy, I have the feeling it was more complete and thorough. After so many years with Workday I still cannot sync my calendar to outlook365, so I need to manually put the entries. A problem solved a million years ago in successfactors.
- hamdingers 11mo agoI have to assume the backoffice is phenomenal because nobody on the employee side ever has good things to say about it.
- namegulf 11mo agoGot 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.
- haolez 11mo agoMy 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 11mo agoThis is probably done to invalidate your session token, which is required in some industries (see banks, logging you out after 5 minutes of inactivity).
- bri3d 11mo agoOne of the hardest problems with making a configurable Enterprise Software thing with a strong brand is figuring out how not to make every misconfiguration a reflection on the brand; there’s no Workday specific reason your configuration had to federate logout in this way. In the same vein, I always thought it was a mistake that Workday branded the recruiting portal so strongly; everyone is furious that they can’t share an account across applications but it really makes sense. They’re supplying the Workday customer with their recruiting data / PII using Workday, not furnishing that data to Workday directly, so sharing across customers would require a whole legal and data tenancy refactoring. (disclosure: I worked at Workday for a long time ages ago and people were certainly not living with their heads in the sand. I don’t think I particularly agree with the direction the company is going but it is always interesting to reflect on some of these threads and the challenges with running that kind of business)
- xgulfie 11mo ago> Pipedream is a platform for building AI agents It is? Last I used it, it was a serverless event-driven pipeline platform
- mjhagen 11mo agoLast I used it, it was a plumbing game.
- neilpointer 11mo agowell, see, you can send an event to an LLM and it can send an event back so it's an AI company now. I am an AI company, now, too.
- dangoodmanUT 11mo agoI’m pretty sure that’s just the obligatory reskin to ride the ai wave
- ghm2199 11mo agoMy head explodes when I read aabout the scamsters that are equifax and their so called "strategic partnership" with workday on payroll data. We all should be aware that equifax — via their "strategic partner" with workday — has your ENTIRE work history with *each and every* payroll check AMOUNT ever sent to you by any W2 employer, the employer info, your address etc. It sells this info to god knows who. Its a shocking amount of info. Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753 I recall a year or so ago, I had frozen this info from being dissemenated to employers or sold to companies from https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze/ https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze/ link but it seems to ask me to re-register again with your SSN and DOB. WTF. That registration would still not stop them from collecting this info. There is no way I can even partially delete any part of this data, like I dunno the dates on which I recieved each of my paychecks. Why the fuck is that in the report?
- jtokoph 11mo agoThe pay amounts also include any RSUs granted and NSOs sold. It took many back and forths with my employer’s HR department and executives to get them to tell ADP to stop sending this info to Equifax (work number)
- asdfman123 11mo ago> Workday to acquire Pipedream Me when I start crushing on the lady who works on the second floor of my office
- speedylight 11mo agoI love when the jokes write themselves, pipedream indeed lol
- newusertoday 11mo agowhat are other alternatives to pipedream?
- rohanprabhu 11mo agoTry out https://composio.dev/ https://composio.dev/ (disclosure - I work here)
- movedx01 11mo agoIs it the first one priced reasonably and transparently, or am I missing something here?
- rguldener 11mo agoNango is an open-source alternative: https://nango.dev https://nango.dev Especially if you use pipedream for integrations in your agent or product. (I’m one of the founders)
- hofo 11mo agoMmm I really think my work day has enough pipe dreams already
- bontaq 11mo agoI really hope they remain open source, but overall this seems like a bad sign
- rubenvanwyk 11mo agoWas confusing Pipedrive and Pipedream for a moment. Suprised how many Zapier-alternatives apparently exist and have business.