Erik Bernhardsson
@bernhardsson
Building @modal_labs
My most psychotic opinion is that we should have multiple daylight savings adjustments every year. Today in NYC, sunrise is at 5:38am (1% are awake at this time and care) and sunset is at 8:25pm (100% are awake at this time and would love another hour of sun).
Hedge fund tech used to be top notch but feels so behind in 2025. Outdated languages, infra, still running stuff on-prem etc. A lot of it because of vague security concerns around IP theft, I think? You're losing alpha not using modern tech!!
It’s true. We burned our entire marketing budget on this.
Hypothetical question, inspired by current events: if you’re a CEO and you tell a company: don’t acquire us, just hire me and my top people for half the price. That’s a breach of fiduciary duty to the shareholders right?
I'm convinced AC in Europe is the European equivalent of Homer Simpson taking a crayon out of his nose and instantly gaining 20 IQ points.
air conditioning in the usa: more than just a luxury have a look at death rates in european cities vs american cities during intense heat
The holy trinity of serverless GPU has been achieved internally at @modal_labs: ✅ Custom filesystem optimized for container cold start ✅ CPU snapshot+restore ✅ GPU snapshot+restore Last one is working internally but not released yet – stay tuned!
We launched our sandbox product for safe programmatic execution of third party code, often LLM-generated. Perfect for AI app builders. Now with SDKs in Python, TypeScript, and Go.
@lovable_dev uses Modal Sandboxes to power 20,000 concurrent code execution sessions in production 🩷💚 Every time you create an app in Lovable, that AI-generated code runs in a secure Modal Sandbox!
Most tech startup seems to become boring boomer tech 10 years in, but a few seem to have avoided it. Stripe and Spotify comes to mind. Any other examples? And how do you keep a cool tech brand for employees and customers?