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Erik says agents can misinterpret pricing, prompting Modal to make its public content clearer and more machine-readable.

Unresolved speaker · Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO · 22 Oct 2026

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“You know, rank all the sandbox vendors by reliability," or, "Rank all the sandbox vendors by price," and, and sort of see.”
“And it does feel like agents are a little bit more prone to, like, misc- understanding pricing and, and, you know, things like that.”
“So we also spend a lot of time, like, just making content more clear and more, like, you know, understandable for agents. 'Cause we know they're all indexing, like, everything that's out there- Yeah...”
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