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Erik is uncertain whether generative AI caused more employees to code, but believes it accelerated the trend by making code cheaper to produce.

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

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“So that to me is like, you know, a, a recent phenomenon, but, but I actually don't know if it's, like, necessarily caused by GenAI. But I think GenAI has, like, greatly accelerated it 'cause it, it made it even lower.”
“The cost of, like, writing code is even easier. So if you have, like, non-technical people, like, committing code, like, how do you, how do you review that? Like, how do you guys do code reviews?”
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