optimization: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/optimization/ Everyone on the record about optimization: 5 verbatim quotes from 2 people, October 2024 to June 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:08 +0000 Dylan Patel: Patel argues co-optimizing hardware, software, and models produces 100x gains instead of 8x from https://minutesof.com/q/c187b446-08d3-4205-b3c0-8e3aacc8f8ba/ https://minutesof.com/q/c187b446-08d3-4205-b3c0-8e3aacc8f8ba/ “The real breakthrough innovation is when you leapfrog a few layers, you co optimize and co design them, and now all of a sudden you've taken what could have been a 2x here, 2x here, 2x here, and instead of being multiplicative to 8x, it's actually 100x, because you've optimized it across all three layers.” — Dylan Patel, Sequoia Capital Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:25 +0000 optimization Bill Gurley: Gurley predicts AI will shift from innovation to optimization like dot-com era Oracle-to-Linux mi https://minutesof.com/q/5eb89444-9fb4-41a0-9286-a46c2c7a1102/ https://minutesof.com/q/5eb89444-9fb4-41a0-9286-a46c2c7a1102/ “So there were you went from a period of innovation to a period of optimization where people are much more worried about cost.” — Bill Gurley, Yahoo Finance Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:00:06 +0000 optimization Dylan Patel: Patel describes simultaneous gains across pre-training, scaling, quantization, systems, and RL in https://minutesof.com/q/f9fa2b78-5b6c-49cc-ab15-2b5c078d76e1/ https://minutesof.com/q/f9fa2b78-5b6c-49cc-ab15-2b5c078d76e1/ “There's tons of gains in quantization and systems, but there's also tons of gains in RL stuff and both the, like, you know, infra side of things and non infra side of things.” — Dylan Patel, SAIL Media Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:46:15 +0000 optimization Dylan Patel: Patel states avoiding redundant prefill through KV cache can cut inference costs to one-fourth of https://minutesof.com/q/c93c6e47-fe3d-405d-b28b-2d99a4919dee/ https://minutesof.com/q/c93c6e47-fe3d-405d-b28b-2d99a4919dee/ “So you can cut your cost to one fourth of what it was previously if you just don't do the pre fill. Right?” — Dylan Patel, Clockwork Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:18:51 +0000 optimization Bill Gurley: Gurley notes early internet startups shifted from 100% Oracle and Sun to Linux and MySQL in five https://minutesof.com/q/b2544452-e14d-41e8-b5c6-0c3f63852547/ https://minutesof.com/q/b2544452-e14d-41e8-b5c6-0c3f63852547/ “Every single fucking one of them were running on Oracle and Sun. And five years later, they were all running on Linux and MySQL, like in five years.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:35:00 +0000 optimization