Palantir DevCon 2, and most recently DevCon 4, have been two of my favorite conferences. They’re built around the things I actually care about. My style is pretty simple: move fast and show value early. That fits naturally with how Foundry works. So at these DevCons:

• We rolled up our sleeves and started building stuff.
• We learned what new things are being developed to help us build.
• We were surrounded by very smart Palantirians who help us build.
• Our feedback was gathered on what would help us build things in the future.

This term ‘builder‘ is rather an interesting one. From the docs

The Palantir platform was designed to empower a diverse community of builders with a collection of powerful tools for use case development, including application building tools, workflow building tools, integrated analytics tools, and developer tools

It is a broad space, whether you are a traditional developer or someone who is simply very good at prompting AI FDE, or working with up and coming LLM and MCP combinations. At the end of the day, it is about being able to create a real solution for a real business need.

I often have trouble explaining what you can build with Palantir, partly because the platform is so vast. Even with that vastness, there are many things that genuinely delight me. I think that is the simplest test of a successful product: does it delight its users?

Pipeline Builder, Code Repos, the Ontology, and Workshop all delight me. The ability to branch all of them delights me even more.

I will write some more about our submission to the hack-a-thon event, but until then, take delight in building.