Paul Modderman

Principal Nerd @boringnerds, founding engineer @nova_ai, author. @paulmodderman.bsky.social

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

I think I’d want Claude to be my Speaker, how can we get this into the evals

[roon @tszzl]

think about this a lot these days

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

@bcherny @l2fika @NATE9169 argh if only I was more online

[FORTUNE @FortuneMagazine]

Nova Intelligence has raised a $31.5 million Series A led by Chemistry, Fortune exclusively learned, bringing total funding to more than $40 million. https://t.co/IvstNc2Ya8

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

So incredibly pumped to be a part of this. It's real - this actually works

[Emma @EmmaQian_]

I'm thrilled to announce @nova_ai's $40M funding across a Series A led by @chemistry and a Seed led by @Accel, with participation from @conviction and SAP's venture arm https://t.co/UuQkPJw9H0.

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

@saranormous @AryenderSingh2 @nvidia @NoPriorsPod @eladgil i would buy this

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

Fucking despicable

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

🚨BREAKING

It looks like ICE just shot and killed someone else in Minneapolis.

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

@emollick There's something joyful in a technology forcing me to update my understanding of what "creativity" is, because I also have a hard time arguing this isn't real creativity

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

I often find myself doing this with Claude. Claude seems more open to it than others

[Sholto Douglas @_sholtodouglas]

"LLMs writing about the experience of being an LLM" is a moving and fresh genre of writing. This is my favorite example so far.

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

@jonerp I would like to see/hear/read this stump speech. got a link handy?

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

and just heard that @swyx joined up too, that would be one helluva fun room to be in

[sarah guo @saranormous]

congrats to the very special team @cognition (@ScottWu46 @stevenkplus1 @walden_yan) on their newest fundraise -- and their big deployments

turns out competitive programming (and density of intelligence) does translate well to company-building

[Boring Enterprise Nerds @BoringNerds]

Confused by the latest SAP "clean core" hubbub? Let's break it down and crack it wide open! How did 3 tiers become 4 levels and what does it mean for you? Only one way to find out: watch it!
#SAP #ABAP
https://t.co/jvDDoadERJ

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

Every business needs this, like, 18 months ago

[Adam D'Angelo @adamdangelo]

We are opening up a new role at Quora: a single engineer who will use AI to automate manual work across the company and increase employee productivity. I will work closely with this person.

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

@DynamicWebPaige 💰💰💰💰💰

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

@DynamicWebPaige dropping my favorite line re: tech in any show, Halt And Catch Fire. Inspirational every time I reflect on it

[👩‍💻 Paige Bailey @DynamicWebPaige]

strong agree

but also believe we'll see a surge of more people using code for creative expression–without explicitly needing to *see* that code, or learn languages, frameworks, design patterns

programming languages aren't The Thing, they're the thing that gets you to The Thing

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

@jeffzwang If this is true I’m either not doing sex right or doing vim right

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

@dmitriid I’d love to hear more about the setup/languages/prompts/etc in your scenario. I think people should aggressively share these counter examples.

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

“…there’s a good chance that, when we look back on this era in human history, AI will have been the thing that matters.”

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I wish more people were taking seriously the possibility that @ezraklein and the leadership of the AI labs are raising: that AGI is a real possibility in the near future.

You don't have to buy it yourself, but leaders & policymakers need to consider the possibility it is true.

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

(Because I am in the same camp that she is on this discussion)

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

I’ve enjoyed this whole discussion. I especially appreciate @AmandaAskell ‘s formulation in the first sentence of this tweet.

I’m often not sure how to respond to those who make the same inferential leap, and this formulation helps my communication. Thank you, Amanda.

[Amanda Askell @AmandaAskell]

I claimed the inference from X="LLMs are next token predictors" to Y="LLMs lack understanding, etc." is fallacious. Marcus claims that I'm saying not-X and not-Y. So I guess I'll point out that the inference "Y doesn't follow from X" to "not-X and not-Y" is also fallacious.

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

I don’t know what numbers I’d have guessed, but software dev being a top use is exactly what I’d have guessed prior to seeing the data.

AI/LLMs might not be perfect software engineers yet, but they sure as hell know about code

[Philipp Schmid @_philschmid]

Interesting! Based on “The @AnthropicAI Economic Index” (millions of Claude conversations) AI usage is currently concentrated in software development and technical writing.

TL;DR:
💻 Computer & Mathematical jobs dominate AI usage (37.2% of queries) despite being only 3.4% of workforce
📝 Writing/editing tasks are second most common (10.3% of queries)
🤝 AI augments human work (57%) more than automates it (43%)
💼 36% of jobs use AI for at least 25% of tasks, only 4% use it for 75%+ of tasks
💰 Mid-to-high wage jobs show highest AI adoption, both lowest and highest wage jobs show minimal usage
🔄 Tasks are being enhanced rather than jobs being fully automated
📊 Analysis based on real usage data from millions of Claude ai conversations
🎯 Usage concentrated in specific tasks rather than entire occupations