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Erik says the benefits of large-scale sandboxing and parallelization depend on reducing their friction, overhead, and transaction costs.

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

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“I think a lot of, a lot of the, the benefits cannot be, uh... Y-you, you can't materialize those benefits un, un-until you get the, the friction and, and the overhead down. Mm. The transaction cost.”
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