According to @gdb, inference is the most valuable emerging software category and compute will increasingly be spent drawing samples from models, signaling a shift of compute budgets toward LLM inference workloads; source: @gdb on X, Nov 17, 2025. According to @gdb, OpenAI is inviting candidates to email gdb@openai.com for its inference team and to detail exceptional team accomplishments plus domain expertise in inference or large-scale system optimization; source: @gdb on X, Nov 17, 2025. According to @gdb, priority optimization areas include deeply understanding and optimizing the model forward pass, system-level efficiencies such as speculative decoding, KV offloading, and workload-aware load balancing, and managing and making observable a massive fleet at scale; source: @gdb on X, Nov 17, 2025. According to @gdb, this explicit emphasis on inference scaling provides a concrete data point for traders tracking AI infrastructure demand and its implications for serving efficiency and throughput in LLM inference; source: @gdb on X, Nov 17, 2025.