PeterBannon

Well, as I said, it's a throwaway account, i.e., created for a single comment tree.

I won't be using it again (because it's a throwaway account) but not because I want to protect Peter Bannon.

Also, I disagree that it's unethical. Obviously you can't infer who's talking simply from the name of a Hacker News account. For example, if my account name was ElonMusk123, it would be naive to assume I was Elon Musk.

At the time I was not in a position to legally challenge Tesla. I realized I had been dealing with a bad company and took work elsewhere. But I will never forget what Tesla did to me.

This is my throwaway Hacker News account named after the relevant director at Tesla:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterbannon

I'm sorry you found this so confusing.

The same thing happened to me in late 2018.

I was hired to write a compiler for deep learning (training) on Tesla's in-house hardware, under Peter Bannon.

I resigned from the job I had at the time, and Tesla backed out of the contract shortly before my start date.

Tesla is ruthless.