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Greg Wester

@gwestr.me

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Technical Product Manager for AI platforms. Previously at $NFLX, $MSFT, $CRM. Driving coach Laguna Seca, Sonoma Raceway, and Thunderhill. Based in San Francisco, CA. https://gwestr.substack.com

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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · Nov 15

#machinelearning I work with a team of scientific researchers, editorial engineers, and ML engineers to deliver extremely low cost predictions on actions, classification, extraction, and summarization. Scale is in excess of 10 billion primary transactions per day. Hundreds of billions of predictions

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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 16m

visas are imminent. we are going abroad when AI exits

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 18m

it's all Simon Fell. Lexi never released Metadata Loader. It was kind of epic

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 21m

my blood sweat and tears is in dataloader. i was on that team and we spent maybe 2 hours a quarter on it, in a theoretical 5000 hours.

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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 23m

I help make a GPU developer platform, but the current crop of agents is insanely bad and I must stop it. It isn't a docs problem, it's an action problem. Let the agent eat away at the P&L to make things right. It's no less capable than the CSA that customers can manipulate into discounts/refunds.

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 27m

Do not under any circumstances take a class or get a certificate. Just tinker. Then build something locally. Then deploy on GPU spot instances. Then scale up to reserved capacity if you have something. This is the way to form an opinion that the market will resonate with.

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 29m

AI accelerating. If you can join a company founded 2022 or later, do it now. Absolutely. Make the finances work. You'll work harder than you've ever worked in your life. Even if you get a 0 on equity in the end, you learn something no business school can teach.

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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 49m

It’s insane to me that a million member cult of Tesla fanatics with “reservations for Mars” think that autopilot is empirically better than Waymo, and cite specific areas where the whack pack can “teach Google applied ML” — as Google's car serves billions of driver free rides

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 1h

I have serious reservations about voting for an illegal challenge to Texas. What next? More illegal shit

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 2h

Going to Dreamforce in 2025 feels like going to a funeral

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 2h

The thing about shitty managers is, a better manager will scoop that talent in 2 seconds when they were not paying attention

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 18h

I have not found one workflow in the product that isn’t hopelessly broken. Need support on a business trip? You can talk to an AI that can’t sort things out with the hotel

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 19h

Ramp is a terrible product

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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 22h

including the part where they put a pen into a bale of narcotics and taste it before making the arrest?

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 22h

the only thing more voided than my Dell warranty is my Tesla warranty

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 22h

eh, naming of fields is very cultural to the engineering org and it's easy to query fields that sound like the data you want, but it's not populated

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 23h

Grokipedia: Elon Musk invented the battery

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 23h

alien battery day mulligan?

Electrek @electrek.co · 1d

Tesla is at risk of lossing subsidies in Korea over widespread battery failures

Tesla is in hot water in South Korea as nearly 4,500 of its electric vehicles have reported serious battery issues, putting their eligibility for government subsidies at risk. more…

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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 23h

it's true

DatacenterDynamics @dcdnews.bsky.social · 1d

Neoclouds see revenue grow 200 percent YoY - Synergy Research

Research group expects revenue to reach $180bn in 2030

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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 23h

he used to walk around the streets until about 2012. then he became hidden behind security. now he's lost touch.

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 23h

Agentforce M365 @getwired.com

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 23h

Salesforce expands its partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic to embed their AI models into Agentforce 360, including letting customers access it in ChatGPT (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)

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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 23h

the old Benioff special?

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Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 23h

funny that this is a relatively small deal. the MI300 series chips are getting very good.

Yahoo Finance @yahoofinance.com · 23h

AMD announced a deal with Oracle to deploy 50,000 GPUs for its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

The move comes after AMD's deal on Oct. 6 to roll out 6 gigawatts worth of chips as part of a multibillion-dollar, multiyear agreement with OpenAI, where OpenAI takes an upwards of a 10% stake in AMD.

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 23h

by early 2028 we are looking at 10x gains in throughput for a 1.5x increase in power per board. but yeah usage is expected to 50x - 100x by 2030, as people use these systems for most of their workday.

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 23h

I hope the national guard brought rat poison and mouse traps because Chicago has a rodent problem more than anything

Greg Wester @gwestr.me · 23h

yah, and we typed in computer code while reading it from a book until we also memorized that.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?