Erik Bernhardsson: belief

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…Yeah. Obviously, it's very hard to get hired at Modal. But what is it like to work with like such a talent density? Like, you know, how is that contributing to the culture at Modal? Yeah. I mean, I think humans are the root cause of like everything at a company, like, you know, bad code is because it's bad human or like whatever, you know, bad culture. So like, I think, you know, like talent density is very important and like keeping the bar high and like hiring smart people. And, you know, it's not always like the case that like hiring competitive programmers is the right strategy, right? If you're building something very different, like you may not, you know, but we actually end up having a lot of like hard, you know, complex challenges. Like, you know, I talked about like the cloud, you know, the resource allocation, like turns out like that actually, like you can phrase that as a mixed integer programming problem. Like we now have that running in production, like constantly optimizing how we allocate cloud resources. There's a lot of like interesting, like complex, like scheduling problems. And like, how do you do all the bin packing of all the containers? Like, so, you know, I think for what we're building, you know, it makes a lot of sense to hire these people who like, like those very hard problems. Yeah. And they don't necessarily have to know the details of the stack. They just need to be very good at algorithms.…

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