Modal tests frontier and open-source coding tools, and Erik prefers experimentation over committing to one coding model or stack.

“Do you guys use, like, frontier models for coding, or do you guys-- have you guys experimented with, uh, like, the open source ones? We experiment with everything.”

“But yeah, I mean, you know, initially it was a lot of Cursor, then, you know, of course Claude and Codex, and, and now a lot of people are using, you know, Nightshift and, and all these open source stuff or, or other stacks.”

“So I don't necessarily have, like, a strong point of view. Like, I, I want people to experiment and try different things. Like, we, you know, use frontier models, use open source models.”