descriptive claim
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
In their words
The transcript segments this claim was taken from
“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.”1:13:31Report a misattribution
0.90how strongly it was put, not whether it is true
0.65importance to the conversation
0.92confidence the claim was read correctly