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Erik monitors the engineering team for speculative or fringe work as the company scales.

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

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“You start to see people doing, like, very speculative things. Like, that, that's something I always watch out for in the engineering team.”
“You go and talk to the eng-- an engineer, and I'm like: "What are you working on?" And, and it turns out they're, like, building something, like, kind of like fringe.”
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