Erik Bernhardsson

@d_philla yeah but those were contners. containers without ai.

yeah, its a good thing we didn't need the ability to run code on shared compute resources for anything like, idk, mutlitenancy, cloud computing, browsers, or smartphones. but it sounds right to say sandbox "for AI", gets the people goin

@cleavey1985 @modal We can, but it's a bit janky. Hoping to make it better soon!

love this. @modal is amazing. I tried to rip out our docker compose (python backend, celery, redis, kafka) test runners on GH actions with modal. I got the docker image working on modal. But the tests still require the docker compose services. Its quite a complex env. But I know modal can't run docker compose, right?

I love this. Tests are a class of “embarrassingly parallel” computer problem and scaling out makes so much sense. Next step: GitHub Actions replacement

15 years living in NYC and every time I come back I still feel like a peasant in the 1700s entering St. Peter’s Basilica or something

@HeyGarrison It’s the proof!!

this one got me lol

In hindsight all the sandbox stuff is so obvious because containers without AI are basically just contners which makes no sense.

@trillhause_ @modal Yeah working on it!

@bernhardsson @modal Hey @bernhardsson, been digging into Modal sandboxes. Since you're on gVisor, custom FUSE mounts feel pretty limited (naming constraints, syscall overhead, etc). Any plans for Firecracker-based microVMs? Would love native kernel support for mounting custom data volumes.

We are good at sandboxes at @modal in several ways but scale is probably our biggest strength. We run hundreds of thousands of sandboxes concurrently and lot of our users come to us because other vendors can’t support that. Getting to millions very soon!

@jianxliao @tnachen @modal Coming up. We got u!

@bernhardsson @tnachen @modal What I meant is that us developers don’t really care about memory snapshots, we just want something that can pause / resume / clone and @modal can handle the rest 🫡

@jianxliao @tnachen @modal Memory snapshots are not scary! We are planning to add a higher level sdk for pausing and resuming though

@bernhardsson @tnachen @modal but can I easily pause / resume / clone sandbox? without ever touching memory snapshots

GTC is basically a bunch of drug addicts begging drug dealers for supply if you replace drugs with GPUs.

@pk_iv @modal femtoseconds

@bernhardsson @modal yea but how fast do they boot erik?!? i need my sandboxes with nanosecond boot time

@paulgb Tangentially related but the frontier labs talking about AGI mass unemployment probably benefits their valuations in the short term but will cause way more issues for them long term

AI progress is hampered by the fact that everyone who talks about it online is at minimum mildly annoying.

@gabriel1 Yes it’s dumb and one of the biggest issues w the tax code in Sweden imo.

@bernhardsson yeah but otherwise you tax nearly 70% 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

sweden forced me to leave all my equity behind in a startup i left before. 1 year cliff in sweden is ILLEGAL to "protect employees" they tried force me to pay 70% tax to get equity in the early startup which is money i didn't have not even communism just raw capital destruction

@gabriel1 Btw it's not exactly right that 1y cliffs are illegal. It's that the QESO treatment doesn't apply if you exercise before 3y. Which is pretty dumb imo.

@gabriel1 Sweden could unleash so much more startup creation by adopting something similar to ISOs

@jitl General White snus I think?

@bernhardsson what’s ur zyn brand alice and i have been pining for its delicious tea like natural flavors

@dominikkoch Biased but @modal! Let me know how we can help you get started.

hey gang what sandbox provider would yall recommend (not e2b)

@iamdamianb probably any day now

@bernhardsson Congrats! 🚀 When 20M/day?

And we're launching about 10M sandboxes every day!