[msaltz]

Hello! It probably doesn’t make much of a difference now that the post is flagged (I assume that it has something to do with people thinking it’s an ad?) but just for the record, I really didn’t intend this as an “ad”. No one asked me to write this and I didn’t plan on writing it. It basically happened just how I described it - I went home, had some extra energy, wanted to build something that needed both 1) an LLM to help me build the thing and 2) an LLM to use within the thing I was building. So I decided to try the Modal endpoint bc it was top of mind and I didn’t want to upgrade my Claude account. Had I not thought it was cool I would not have written about it, but what made me write the thing wasn’t “Modal is cool”, it was the feeling I describe in the post. I was a little worried it might come across as an ad and considered removing the links but figured, “oh well”. It was a nice plus that it involved the company I’m at doing something cool, but that wasn’t really the point. In any case, I’m glad some people found it interesting, and maybe this was flagged for some other reason, but thought I might as well respond, even if I may not convince anyone :) Possibly even given the above it’s not HN-appropriate somehow but I thought that the sentiment might be appreciated