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Erik says agents can reduce the effort required to work with difficult systems and configuration formats such as YAML.

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

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“And, and I threw an agent at it, and it was able to like just configure a bunch of like as-- you know, things in, in Pulumi for me. And you know, and, and so I will say like agents does-- they do make it a little bit easier to work with things that are like harder to work with in the past, you know?”
“Like the sort of human toll of dealing with YAML has arguably gone down a little bit 'cause you can just like, you know, tell your agent to deal with it.”
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