Chris Lattner

One of the first things that was profound was I'm not cleaning up somebody else's mess.

And so if you look at- That's liberating to some degree.

It's super liberating.

And also many of the projects I've built in the past have not been core to the product of the company.

Swift is not Apple's product, right?

MLIR is not Google's revenue machine or whatever, right?

It's important, but it's like working on the accounting software for the retail giant or something, right?

It's like enabling infrastructure and technology.

And so at Modular, the tech we're building is...

here to solve people's problems.

Like it is directly the thing that we're giving to people.

And so this is a really big difference.

And what it means for me as a leader, but also for many of our engineers is they're working on the thing that matters.

And that's actually pretty, I mean, again, for, for a competitive people and things like that, that's, that's usually not the case.

Right.

And so that's, that's also pretty exciting and, and quite nice.

But the, um, one of the ways that this manifests is it makes it easier to make decisions.

And so one of the challenges I've had in other,

worlds is it's like okay well community matters somehow for the goodness of the world like or open source matters theoretically but i don't want to pay for a t-shirt yeah right or some swag like well t-shirts cost 10 bucks each you can have 100 t-shirts for a thousand dollars to a mega corp a thousand dollars is uncountably can't count that low right but justifying it and getting a t-shirt by the way if you'd like a t-shirt i think

You can have a Fire Emoji t-shirt.