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Modal addresses the challenge of AI workloads, which are bursty and non-rectangular. The solution involves aggregating global GPU capacity into a serverless compute platform, making compute more flexible and efficient than traditional three-year capacity commitments.
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Learn how to manage Claude Managed Agents in CI/CD using Ancho CLI and YAML. We cover multi-tenancy, the coordinator pattern, and scaling with self-hosted sandboxes.
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The hard part of background agents is always the environment. Focus on environmental engineering, building robust dev boxes instead of optimizing the agent itself. This requires separating control and data planes for stability.
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Learn how to automate a job using agents: Niels Rogge discusses building two systems—a deterministic workflow and an autonomous agent loop—to scale artifact discoverability at Hugging Face.
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Modal CTO Akshat Bubna details how AI workloads break traditional cloud assumptions. He discusses specialized primitives like GPU snapshotting, private IPv6, and DeFlash to enable elastic inference for custom models.
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