Thinking Machines Engineer Returns to Modal, Reflects on ML Infrastructure Work

Eric Zhang (ekzhang1) has left Thinking Machines to return to Modal. In a farewell retrospective, the youngest engineer at the 60-person startup detailed a year of building ML and production infrastructure and seeing a model through from training to deployment.

2026-11-09 ~ 2026-11-10 · 2 related posts

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