Paul Modderman

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

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

@KelseyTuoc Thank you for helping me tune the dials of my thoughts, greatly appreciated!

[Emma @EmmaQian_]

We’re hosting a happy hour this Thursday (Oct 15) in NYC, bringing together top engineers from OpenAI, DeepMind, Jane Street, Jump Trading, and more.

Drinks, food, poker, and good company at @nova_ai’s HQ.

A few spots left — reach out if you’re interested.

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

@DynamicWebPaige I was shocked by how much I loved this book

[alexa @AlexaKayman]

I'm hosting an invite-only dinner for talent at the frontier of AI, with engineers from Anthropic, DeepMind, Jane Street, + more.

Have a few spots left. Who else should I invite?

Join us for a italian-japanese fusion tasting menu and great drinks Sep 17 @ 7pm in NYC.

Co-hosted by @Accel, @chemistry, and @Nova_AI.

[Emma @EmmaQian_]

Come join us for dinner on Sep 17 in NYC — a great group of engineers from Anthropic, DeepMind, Jane Street and more. A few spots left, reach out if you want in!

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

@MartinStenzig it sort of melts my brain how this hasn't been obvious for years

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

yapcoding

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

One pattern I find useful for working with LLMs is a nice long ramble session. Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve, but you're too lazy to type them. In these cases I like to lean back, switch to /voice and just ramble for like 10 minutes, total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness. Sometimes I declare it up top, something like "switching to speech recognition sorry for any typos...". Sometimes I turn it into a small interview of a few turns. But I find that the LLMs are somehow very good at reconstructing long incoherent rambles and often their echo of your own tangle of thoughts comes out quite a bit cleaner than what you started with. The result is that you improve the mind meld and have to correct things less from that point on.

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

@andrea_reiher Going into her room, she said "why did you have me watch this?" in just about the saddest voice I'd ever heard.

Upon her re-emergence, she told me she understood.

[Paul Modderman @PaulModderman]

@andrea_reiher Somehow FG is one of the very few old movies I've been able to convince my daughter to watch. After the end, she disappeared into her room for about an hour.

[Nova Intelligence @nova_ai]

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@EmmaQian_ @samuely4ng
#SAP #EnterpriseAI #SAPHANA #S4HANA #AI

[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.