Modal intern's recap: environment-level budgets and agent-driven RL post-training

dejavucoder · x · 2026-09-03

Modal intern Rhea Malik details her summer across two teams. On product engineering, she explains moving billing and spend enforcement from workspace-level to environment-level budgets — because a runaway agent in a research environment could otherwise drain the budget keeping production alive — and what it's like shipping code touching every request. On the training side, she built low-latency environment budgets and worked on agent-driven RL post-training infrastructure.

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