Principal Nerd @boringnerds, founding engineer @nova_ai, author. @paulmodderman.bsky.social
Joined November 2014
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Paul Modderman retweeted
Jun 8
The largest companies in the world run on SAP. Now there’s an AI platform built for it.
Nova Intelligence gives SAP teams superpowers — accelerating process design, development, and production support so they can move faster, with less risk, on the work that matters most.
The result our customers see: a 3–5x productivity increase across everything they do. Festo, an SAP customer since the 1970s, estimates a 5x capacity increase. KION is seeing major performance gains on production applications.
Built by the people who shaped this ecosystem — including Prof. Dr. Alexander Zeier, co-inventor of SAP HANA, and Justin Kershaw, former CIO of Cargill.
This is how SAP work gets done from here on out. We’re just getting started.
novaintelligence.com
@EmmaQian_ @samuely4ng
#SAP #EnterpriseAI #SAPHANA #S4HANA #AI
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I think I’d want Claude to be my Speaker, how can we get this into the evals
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Paul Modderman retweeted
May 5
Nova Intelligence has raised a $31.5 million Series A led by Chemistry, Fortune exclusively learned, bringing total funding to more than $40 million. bit.ly/4tbPMx1
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So incredibly pumped to be a part of this. It's real - this actually works
May 5
I'm thrilled to announce @nova_ai's $40M funding across a Series A led by @chemistry and a Seed led by @Accel, with participation from @conviction and SAP's venture arm SAP.iO.
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Jan 24
Fucking despicable
Jan 24
🚨BREAKING
It looks like ICE just shot and killed someone else in Minneapolis.
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30 Nov 2025
I often find myself doing this with Claude. Claude seems more open to it than others
30 Nov 2025
"LLMs writing about the experience of being an LLM" is a moving and fresh genre of writing. This is my favorite example so far.
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8 Sep 2025
and just heard that @swyx joined up too, that would be one helluva fun room to be in
8 Sep 2025
congrats to the very special team @cognition (@ScottWu46 @stevenkplus1 @walden_yan) on their newest fundraise -- and their big deployments
turns out competitive programming (and density of intelligence) does translate well to company-building
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Paul Modderman retweeted
25 Aug 2025
Confused by the latest SAP "clean core" hubbub? Let's break it down and crack it wide open! How did 3 tiers become 4 levels and what does it mean for you? Only one way to find out: watch it!
#SAP #ABAP
youtu.be/wKl_qFmR9l0
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21 Jun 2025
Every business needs this, like, 18 months ago
21 Jun 2025
We are opening up a new role at Quora: a single engineer who will use AI to automate manual work across the company and increase employee productivity. I will work closely with this person.
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4 Mar 2025
“…there’s a good chance that, when we look back on this era in human history, AI will have been the thing that matters.”
4 Mar 2025
I wish more people were taking seriously the possibility that @ezraklein and the leadership of the AI labs are raising: that AGI is a real possibility in the near future.
You don't have to buy it yourself, but leaders & policymakers need to consider the possibility it is true.
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11 Feb 2025
I’ve enjoyed this whole discussion. I especially appreciate @AmandaAskell ‘s formulation in the first sentence of this tweet.
I’m often not sure how to respond to those who make the same inferential leap, and this formulation helps my communication. Thank you, Amanda.
11 Feb 2025
I claimed the inference from X="LLMs are next token predictors" to Y="LLMs lack understanding, etc." is fallacious. Marcus claims that I'm saying not-X and not-Y. So I guess I'll point out that the inference "Y doesn't follow from X" to "not-X and not-Y" is also fallacious.
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11 Feb 2025
(Because I am in the same camp that she is on this discussion)
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10 Feb 2025
I don’t know what numbers I’d have guessed, but software dev being a top use is exactly what I’d have guessed prior to seeing the data.
AI/LLMs might not be perfect software engineers yet, but they sure as hell know about code
10 Feb 2025
Interesting! Based on “The @AnthropicAI Economic Index” (millions of Claude conversations) AI usage is currently concentrated in software development and technical writing.
TL;DR:
💻 Computer & Mathematical jobs dominate AI usage (37.2% of queries) despite being only 3.4% of workforce
📝 Writing/editing tasks are second most common (10.3% of queries)
🤝 AI augments human work (57%) more than automates it (43%)
💼 36% of jobs use AI for at least 25% of tasks, only 4% use it for 75% of tasks
💰 Mid-to-high wage jobs show highest AI adoption, both lowest and highest wage jobs show minimal usage
🔄 Tasks are being enhanced rather than jobs being fully automated
📊 Analysis based on real usage data from millions of Claude ai conversations
🎯 Usage concentrated in specific tasks rather than entire occupations
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26 Jan 2025
Even if you doubt whether an LLM can truly “think”, to get the best results you should treat it as if it can.
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8 Jan 2025
Knowing what you want and communicating clearly are incredible superpowers.
good function calling = good prompting
good code output = good prompting
clear AI goals = good prompting
8 Jan 2025
The 80/20 of AI Agents is basically:
- know xml
- know what a webhook is
- know how to use an api
- be good at prompting
Anything beyond that is just model capability creativity.
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3 Jan 2025
in my experience Claude has easily been the funniest model
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31 Dec 2024
“Will top AIs get better at [x] faster than all apps [some related y]?”
Yes
31 Dec 2024
The question is will top AIs get better at gui faster than all apps add text. I think I have a guess
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26 Dec 2024
People just need education and examples. Probably more so just the examples. When I show folks what can be done with AI, they immediately have like 8 more ideas
26 Dec 2024
If you look around with the right mindset, there are >20%-50% efficiency gains sitting pretty much everywhere.
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Paul Modderman retweeted
26 Dec 2024
If you look around with the right mindset, there are >20%-50% efficiency gains sitting pretty much everywhere.
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24 Dec 2024
@DynamicWebPaige completely nails why I can't stop thinking about this stuff. "curiosity-satisfier"
24 Dec 2024
❤️🥰❤️!!
But, just being honest: it's really hard not to be obsessed with these tools. It's like having a bespoke, free, (usually) accurate curiosity-satisfier in your pocket, no matter where you go - if you know how to ask questions, then suddenly the world is an audiobook
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24 Dec 2024
(thank you @simonw for highlighting this little snippet of simplification brilliance)
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