Nishant Modak
@nishantmodak
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building autonomous software @last9io so I can finally get off pager and go for long runs and listen to Beatles
California, USA
Joined May 2007
I was on the @ASYMMETRICCREW podcast with friends and the conversation flowed freely. I have always been a bit worried about going on record because this ecosystem is full of gyaandus and it does not need another one. But When @RevantB asks me a direct question I cannot not
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Observability != dashboards. It’s Yahoo 1998 right now. The next Google moment is coming where intent beats organization. https://t.co/3rgwPoE6Tl
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How today's observability wars mirrors the portal vs. search engine battle of the late 90s.
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Shoutout to @prathamesh2_ and @sahilk for today's session on AI SRE Agents. Thank you for answering all my dumb questions! Definitely give @last9io's AI SRE agent a try.
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Yellow pages died. They died for a reason that the catalog & dashboard companies of today forget. When information refreshes faster than your catalog - the catalog becomes useless. If your systems cannot help you discover, interpret & act. you might as well punch cards.
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Building agentic DX completely rewires your brain.. Because once the system can act on its own, every abstraction you built for humans starts to look like legacy. Like bad legacy. Agentic systems force you to define intent, not steps. They make you confront all the glue code,
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Parle G at our next meetup in SF and Biscoff in Bangalore Local cookies. Global infra
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Workflows are moving from human UI into agent process/logic at an incredible pace. Market has re-segmented into data and intelligence/agents. All intermediate layer of reports, dashboards, workflows-don’t make sense
powerful ai agents will sit on top (and under!) every saas it’s still very very early
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Yes. This. Very much this.
Good infrastructure doesn't have cold starts. If you're measuring the cold start you've already lost the plot.
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Spending the day in SF meeting a bunch of folks with @sahilk If you are around, say 👋 And get a sneak peek of our upcoming launch 🍿
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To build a generational company, you need two things: 1. A controversial and unique idea about a given market (going against consensus is a major prerequisite for success) 2. A founder who’s relentless about making that idea reality (they’re operating in the unknown, pulling the
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Have an opinion, have rigor, put your neck on the line, know you will take bad decisions, take them anyway, be scared, walk on a tight rope, win, lose, just do things, differentiate, care, take bold bets. Make it count!
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2019: We were all builders 2020: We were all remote 2021: We were all funded 2022: We were all humbled 2023: We were all learning 2024: We were all rebuilding 2025: We are all
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We’re a Gartner Cool Vendor 🎉 Gartner named @last9io a Cool Vendor in AI for SRE & Observability : recognizing how our unified telemetry platform and agentic SDK move teams from dashboards to decisions! Agentic Software Operations is here!
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What happens in a world where it's dramatically faster and cheaper to generate something good, but not what you want?
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AI doesn’t take your job. It takes your illusions about what your job was.
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MySpace era of SAAS is here. Each app will have my marquee tag and personality
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