Wes Field
@WesAField
🌎 hacking | Forging | Ex-Palantir | everything I say is a joke unless you agree with me.
Last week was my last at Palantir. I could not be more grateful to the people there, far too many to name, that transformed my life. One special thanks to my lead, @hyperindexed — :tusken: — the rest of you know who you are. Joining Palantir was the best non-family decision I…
Bay Area X — we are hosting an ambitious group of builders and engineers. Renting out Spin in SF on the evening of July 10th. DM if interested. No normies.
The platform is The Party.
Why aren’t Americans partying anymore? blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-death-of…
Developers now often program in English for AI models. Some tasks can be solved by decomposition, others by introducing increasingly more constraints. IFScale is an interesting approach to see how many instructions an LLM can handle and what trends separate different models.
How many instructions can your LLM follow at once? Production LLM systems juggle 10-100s of instructions: policies, style, safety rules, tool use--but when do they overload? We introduce IFScale, a new benchmark measuring how instruction following degrades as instructions scale🧵
*Taps board* Remember, it's just tech consulting if you aren't doing this.
Programs are built to deliver products. Platforms are developed by productizing successful programs.
Why you should stop working on RL research and instead work on product // The technology that unlocked the big scaling shift in AI is the internet, not transformers I think it's well known that data is the most important thing in AI, and also that researchers choose not to work…
Should have said you were working at exclusively at an AI agent company to keep 30 jobs.
There’s a lot being said about me right now, and most of you don’t know the full story. If there’s one thing to know about me, it’s that I love to build. That’s it. I’ve been isolated, written off, and shut out by nearly everyone I’ve known and every company I’ve worked at.…
Human/software symbiosis is evolving. To that end, I am honored to ride with the S-tier humans at Forge. Time to lock in. withforge.com
Capitalism's unequal distribution of prosperity is far better than socialism's equal distribution of misery. Experience keeps proving it.
Zohran Mamdani: “I don't think that we should have billionaires.” Do you agree? Is there a point in being a billionaire besides for power?
California Coastal Commission delenda est
New @AEI map: US housing shortage visualized by county. Under an estimated ~6M housing shortfall, the geographic imbalance is staggering. Counties in red face deficits ≥15% of their housing stock.
Here’s the thing — products built for PMF are not a fit for FDE. Software that builds software to solve business problems is what requires FDE.
Microsoft CEO @satyanadella cites Palantir’s FDE model as “fantastic” at YCombinator’s event $PLTR
The Childless Cheer™
The whitest party in NYC is the Zohran election night party. This is incredible. I’ve never seen so little diversity in NY.
Palantir the movie would be 1000x more interesting than this btw. Inb4 Lenny Kravitz as Karp.
‘THE SOCIAL NETWORK: PART 2’ is in the works. • Aaron Sorkin is set to write and direct • Unknown if Jesse Eisenberg will return as Mark Zuckerberg (Source: Deadline)