Deploying an AI Agent on Modal in Six Minutes: A Walkthrough
hugobowne · x · 2026-09-03
- Hugo Bowne-Anderson demoed deploying a customer-support agent on Modal in 6 minutes: run, deploy, query, and inspect tool calls/traces on the OpenAI side.
- The walkthrough comes from his Maven course Build Production-Ready AI Agents for the Enterprise with Doug Turnbull; Modal sponsors it with $500 in compute credits per student.
- Next production steps: real search/retrieval, write actions with approvals, conversation memory, frontend, better evals.
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