i pride myself on having a strong bias to action, but i still find it really easy to spend a lot of time talking about role/responsibilities
it's obvious that DOING things outside of your role is a great way to increase scope
what's less obvious is that TALKING about your role can actually shrink it - you have less time to do scope expanding activities and less leverage to ask for more
the best time to hire a GTM Engineer to scale our data platform was before we hit a $1B revenue run rate
the second best time is right now
this person will be responsible for building our...
- company and people graphs, tracking companies, labs, researchers, and engineers
- forecasting inputs for both compute capacity (supply) and sales pipeline (demand)
- customer and user journey state machine, ensuring that we're surfacing the right action to the right person at the right time
you wouldn't be starting from scratch - we have an incredible team, a cracked engineering culture, the latest in agent infrastructure, and the mandate of Heaven to build the best GTM data platform the world has ever seen
apply at the link below and/or DM me a piece of technical writing or presentation about a data system/product you've built
jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/dd6fe…
Chris Prinz retweeted
hello world! im so happy to announce that i’ve joined @modal!
when thinking about my next role post-VC, i prioritized the following:
+ a strong presence in NYC: modal and its NYC office are growing…FAST! i started yesterday and my desk has already been moved to accommodate more growth (lol)
+ talent density: even as an outside observer, the ambition at modal was abundantly clear - deep developer/customer love, a wide-reaching platform vision, an intense focus on cutting-edge research
+ a POV on brand: from its organic IC-led presence online to my conversations internally about everything from eng blog to socials to editorial projects, it was obvious that this is a team that deeply cares about how it shows up in the world
there has been quite a stir over the past few weeks (oops lol) of what “storytelling” and related work means in the world of tech... im excited to help shape what it means at modal :)
Chris Prinz retweeted
Everybody buying compute for RL needs to stop immediately and think about this result.
Big homogenous clusters are a sledgehammer for what is essentially an inference-shaped nail.
Fantastic work from @nanjiangwill.
Training large models with RL typically runs on a fixed homogeneous cluster of the latest accelerators for numerical stability and faster throughput. This throws away inference optimization work done for other vendors and generations, limits the capacity you can utilize, and is unnecessarily expensive.
So we trained a model on agentic coding tasks using fully asynchronous RL and mixed-precision, mixed-accelerator samplers. With off-policy correction, training stayed stable through convergence, on par with homogeneous samplers, at a lower cost.
ideal form factor for an agent controller imo - not always listening (hopefully), always immediately operable, discreet
super stoked about this as someone who spends a lot of time monologuing to ChatGPT on long runs
natura.inc/i/8s8r3u
“agent in the loop” is out
the agent is the loop, and we’re just living in it
“You can give the Engine a goal or an ambiguous workstream, and it creates the loop to understand, measure, iterate, and self-improve.”
Hear how @ChrisPrinz at @modal is rethinking GTM with Hone Engines that go beyond executing tasks to own entire workstreams, continuously measure results, and improve performance.
See what Engines can do for your organization at Hone.com.
don't get me wrong, i'm really excited that @hone officially launched today. but since we launched our engine AutoMOGS, it's taken both my job AND my best friend @ellenfclee!!
people used to come to me when they wanted to enrich lists, run campaigns, build automations, and do analysis
but now they just send a Slack to AutoMOGS. even worse - AutoMOGS will proactively Slack them with improvements to workflows and new opportunities!
i'd tread lightly around bringing Hone into your organization. and if you're one of our competitors - heed my advice and just stay away!
Chris Prinz retweeted
Runtime is happening in two days.
Join us to hear speakers from @AnthropicAI, @typesafeai, @nvidia, @tryramp, and more.
so excited to see which reservations I’ll be able to get with my museinstinctdotgrokbot after I give it access to my calendar contact book email identity and also a gun
for all of the people looking for a Personal AI Agent to help you achieve your dreams and fill your time with joyous activities
have you considered that you could perhaps instead get a Cat?
the model releases will continue until morale improves
vllm-sr.ai/blog/decision-mod…
Chris Prinz retweeted
The full Runtime agenda is live, including talks from:
@ScottWu46, Co-founder & CEO @cognition
@CompleteSkeptic, Co-founder & CEO @typesafeai
@dylan522p, Founder & CEO @SemiAnalysis_
@sarahookr, Co-founder & CEO @adaptionlabs
@ajratner, Co-founder & CEO @SnorkelAI