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Terrible news from Intel, this guy seems like the best performance engineer on the planet
Intel losing great people at high speed. Not the first, not the last.
I’m wonder how much longer Intel will be around. It seems to be dying a slow death like Kodak or IBM at this point.
I'm guessing he'll land at one of the big frontier model companies. I'm surprised he stayed at Intel as long as he did, they are dying fast.
A periodic reminder Intel is still in business.
You want something fun? Intel still has more than 50% market share in all segments (data center, desktops, laptops).
Yes that's a great stat. It's amazing how slowly large companies can die. Intel has serious problems in all those segments. Maybe they can recover but I'm pretty pessimistic about their chances.
A "goodbye" post after only 3.5 years. Hard to relate.

In my world it's hard to imagine an impact after that short of a time. And in fact, reading the list of accomplishments ("interviewed by the Wall Street Journal") makes it clear it's a good PR piece.

I'm perfectly willing to believe he's fabulous, but this didn't move the needle for me.

He's arguably the most famous performance engineer. I've followed his work for 15 years.
People should try to remember that people post this on their blogs, the way it gets in HN is not always their own doing.
> "I also supported cloud computing, participating in 110 customer meetings, and created a company-wide strategy to win back the cloud with 33 specific recommendations, in collaboration with others across 6 organizations."

Man people keep count of this stuff?! Maybe I should too, it does make flexing easier.

I like to measure things. In real life and on computers. But I also have a couple of work reasons for it:

As a remote worker, I'm under extra pressure to prove that remoteness works.

As a senior employee, I'm also under pressure to regularly report where my time is spent.

The fact that they were busy keeping count during those 110 occasions and for every other activity clearly tells that they nothing better to do. You have to be loud about such numbers when you have very little meaningful work to show for.
Parse your calendar export (.ics) file and count events of a certain name and voila?
Of course, always take notes, they will help when doing escalations, or justify oneself in review meetings.
While I have a personal career document and have had one for years where I have all of my major accomplishments in STAR format. This seems a bit much.

When I was at BigTech, there was an internal system where you recorded your major accomplishments and the impact they had.

But I would never write it up on a public blog post like this. I am assuming the author of the post must be someone well known in the industry for it to make it to the front page of Hacker News. If his intent was to promote himself so he could get another job, I’m sure that he has a network where a few messages would lead him to one.

Even in my little niche of the world where in the grand scheme of things I’m a nobody, I was able to lean on my network at 50 after being Amazoned in 2023 and have three offers that were at least a lateral move within two weeks.

I had one fall into my lap last year too that I accepted based on my network.

Leaving intel? That’s one case where an employee won’t get chastised for
Wow is it me or is the self promotion strong in this one.
Does he need it though? His name is literally a brand in many tech circles and very good brand at that
Masterclass in turning a goodbye email into a hire me after my next gig ends. I’m not being sarcastic, this is a great example of highlighting the value they added.
He doesn’t mention it in this post, but in another post he talked about the toll of needing to frequently attend meetings in the middle of the night in his time zone.

Whatever his reasons for leaving, I hope that he finds a better balance in his new role.

I mean I understand if someone like Keller writes such posts but some dude claiming to have hosted conference events and some kind of process flame graph which could have been done by anyone…
I see some mean comments. I suppose maybe people doesn't know Brendan Gregg's work, this guy reserve some respect.
What's with the retro gear on the desk?

Do you use it much and what for?

In particular Commodore tape player.

Leading the article with AI stuff is certainly a choice. If that's what they've ben spending their time on lately, maybe this is good for Intel.