Building Tools for Thinking with AI with Eric Ma (Moderna)
Linear chat boxes stifle complex work. We need branching systems that preserve context and explore multiple paths. We need a workspace that grows with our ideas.
Join Eric Ma (Senior Principal Data Scientist at Moderna) and Hugo Bowne-Anderson (Vanishing Gradients) for a live, 90-minute build: They will start with an empty repository and use AI to create "Canvas Chat": a tool for non-linear research.
The gap between idea and application has vanished. You will learn:
The Workflow: Move from "Engineer" to "Product Builder." UseCursor, Claude Opus, & Composer to generate features from a blank slate
Agent Management: Keep agentic assistants aligned with your intent using structured tools, skills, and context management
Non-Linear UX & Branching Memory: Move beyond the scroll. Learn the design principles behind Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) interfaces, where users can "spawn" child nodes from specific lines of text and maintain separate, inherited conversation histories.
Research Agents in Production: See how to integrate the Exa API to move beyond the model’s internal knowledge. We will implement autonomous research nodes that fetch, summarize, and synthesize real-time web data into your thinking canvas.
Infrastructure at the Speed of Thought: Learn how to use Modal for per-second billing and instant deployments, ensuring your custom tools are always available without the overhead of traditional cloud management.
Whether you are a data scientist looking to build better internal tools or a developer exploring the future of human-computer interaction, this session provides a practical roadmap for building that help you think, instead of inhibiting it!
Register to join live or get the recording afterwards.