How does your experience leading machine learning at Spotify inform the product design philosophy of Modal?

At Spotify, I spent years watching brilliant machine learning researchers waste fifty percent of their working hours struggling with Kubernetes configurations, Docker files, and broken GPU drivers rather than writing algorithms. Our guiding philosophy at Modal is to make the cloud feel like local development. You write standard Python code on your laptop, add a simple decorator, and your script executes instantly across hundreds of remote GPUs in parallel.