David Dorman

I started a new role at @grafana recently after spending the last 5 years @digitalocean. Here's a few thoughts on marketing, developers, and being excited about seemingly boring topics: dorman.io/so-long-and-th…

With Offload, @imbue_ai saw a 6x drop in execution times by giving agents the ability to parallelize tasks. Now open source, and backed by Modal Sandboxes 👇

Your parallel agents needed scalable test coverage yesterday Introducing Offload: a Rust CLI that spreads your test suite across 200+ @Modal sandboxes, freeing your CPU to keep your agents shipping. On our Playwright suite, it took a 12 min run to 2, at $0.08 a run

Over 1 billion sandboxes have been launched on Modal. Since launching three years ago, we've seen Modal Sandboxes become foundational to how AI is being built. Today, teams like @Lovable, @tryramp, @cognition and more are using Modal Sandboxes to power everything from coding platforms and background agents to RL infrastructure at scale.

Deploy Nemotron 3 Super, the latest open model from @nvidia, today on Modal. Its hybrid architecture delivers >50% faster token generation compared to the best open models today.

I'm hiring for a new role @modal: Agent DX Researcher Most of the code deployed on Modal will be written by agents. We're getting scientific about optimizing agent productivity and providing the best possible DX for building AI applications. Join us! jobs.ashbyhq.com/modal/407cd498…

Your coding agent just got its own computer. ob1 --sandbox Powered by Modal.

🔊 Introducing Resonance, a full-stack AI voice platform like ElevenLabs No, this isn't my SaaS announcement, it's a completely free, open source tutorial 😎 🎤 Clone voices from audio samples or record your own 🎙️ Self-host an AI voice model with @modal 📦 Store audio with @Cloudflare R2 🔐 Authentication & multi-tenant orgs with @clerk 🗄️ PostgreSQL database with @prisma ORM 💳 Pay-as-you-go billing with @polar_sh 🪲 Each pull request reviewed with @coderabbitai 🚀 Learn to deploy on @Railway 📊 Monitor errors and logs with @sentry 🎨 @shadcn UI + @tailwindcss v4

Fresh blog post! @modal partnered with @ScalingIntelLab, @HazyResearch, and @chelseabfinn's IRIS Lab to speed up research on speeding up AI research. Read how scientists at the cutting edge are building the machines that build the machines with Modal. modal.com/blog/accelerat…

Introducing Directory Snapshots for Modal Sandboxes 📸 Snapshot and mount specific directories independently across Sandboxes. This lets you: - Snapshot system dependencies without touching application code - Use warm pools without sacrificing project-specific state - Pre-load critical files for faster startup Read the blog -> modal.com/blog/directory…

We sat down with @tryramp to talk about their internal coding agent, Ramp Inspect, that now writes over half of their merged PRs. - Runs on Modal Sandboxes. - Full dev environments spin up in seconds. - Hundreds of sessions in parallel.

Coding agents are a huge unlock for developer productivity, especially when they have the full context and tooling to verify their own work. By spinning up full dev environments in Modal Sandboxes, @tryramp's coding agent Inspect can run tests, check telemetry, and visually verify changes — just like a human engineer. It now is responsible for ~50% of PRs. We sat down with the team (@rahulgs @zachbruggeman) to hear how they built it on Modal. Full conversation next week.

The way we write, ship, and maintain software is changing fast. Join @cursor_ai, @modal, @AntithesisHQ & @antimetal in NYC on Feb 26 to see how teams are building the AI dev stack. RSVP required luma.com/09d86w15

We heard you like @openclaw & @opencode, so we collaborated with @Zai_org to make GLM-5 free to use on day 0. It's the best open-source model for long-horizon tasks right now, give it a go.

GLM-5, the latest frontier open model from @Zai_org, is available now on Modal. We partnered with Z.ai to release an endpoint that will be free for a limited time.

🖥️ Scaling 10s of thousands of GPUs across multiple cloud service providers (@GoogleCloud, @AWS, @Azure) is no small feat, and often leads to very nuanced and tricky bugs. Check out this blog post from the @Modal team, who documented the hard lessons so you don't have to:

🔥🚪👀 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗘 𝗗𝗥𝗢𝗣 𝗜𝗡𝗦, weekly profiles of cracked teams | Ep 22: @modal (w/ @bernhardsson) So fun to spend time with Erik Bernhardsson. As the founder of Modal, one of the leading AI infra providers, he's got a unique view into what's being used and what's working. Thanks for having me in, Erik!

Hey all! I'm back to webinaring -- this time, we'll talk about how to optimize production LLM inference. When: February 11th, 9am Pacific. Where: watch.getcontrast.io/register/high-….

Page views for @modal sandbox docs – something is definitely happening

A simple leadership upgrade: process the chaos with ChatGPT before bringing it to people. Bring clarity, not confusion. Episode 1 with @ddorman out now youtube.com/watch?v=jjb-na…