(quick links: add to your own Slack; source code) Internally at Modal, we spend a lot of time talking to each other on Slack. Now, with the advent of open-source large language models, we had started to wonder if all of this wasn’t a bit redundant. Could we have these language models bike-shed on Slack for us, so we could spend our time on higher leverage activities such as paddleboarding in Tahiti instead? To test this, we fine-tuned OpenLLaMa on Erik’s Slack messages, and @erik-bot was born. ...