Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

Post by lokar » Wed, Jul 09, 2025, 3:44 PM UTC

UltraSane wrote: post #80

jeffbee wrote: post #25

Have any of the people who noisily joined X to make a big impact fast actually had a big impact over any time frame? Remember when G. Hotz said he was going to fix Twitter search in 6 weeks, and then it turned out that G. Hotz is just another midwit like anyone else and Twitter search is still as bad as ever? Yaccarino said they were going to transform Twitter into the "everything app" with payments, marketplaces, an…

Search is a pretty solved problem if you are willing to invest the resources to create a inverted index of all the text you want to search. An inverted index of all tweets would be pretty expensive. Creating text embeddings for semantic search would be the next stage and even more expensive.

Post by 0cf8612b2e1e » Wed, Jul 09, 2025, 3:45 PM UTC

techpineapple wrote: post #62

Covzire wrote: post #17

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To me, and I'm guessing the reason Linda left is not that Grok said these things. Tweaking chatbots is hard, yes prompt engineering can help say anything, but I'm guessing it's her sense of control and governance, not wanting to have to constantly clean up Musk's messes. Musk made a change recently, he said as much, he was all move fast and break things about it, and I imagine Linda is tired of dealing with that, and…

Post by snickerdoodle12 » Wed, Jul 09, 2025, 3:46 PM UTC

Xiol32 wrote: post #32

andsoitis wrote: post #23

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You’re saying two things: - she is inept - she never had any say (which I interpret, perhaps incorrectly, that she is competent but had her hands were tied) Which is it?

Arguably a competent person wouldn't have persisted in a role where it was obvious they were not able to make a meaningful difference.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 09, 2025, 3:46 PM UTC

andsoitis wrote: post #23

CyberMacGyver wrote: post #4

One time they let her speak publicly it turned out to be a disaster. She never had any say and worst part is she was not even a good fall guy, it was clear who’s pulling the strings. The most immaterial and inconsequential hire ever. I love all the replies on Twitter thanking her but during her time the valuation dropped 80% and they were suing advertisers for not advertising. Remarkably inept.

You’re saying two things: - she is inept - she never had any say (which I interpret, perhaps incorrectly, that she is competent but had her hands were tied) Which is it?

Post by alganet » Wed, Jul 09, 2025, 3:47 PM UTC

JKCalhoun wrote: post #61

alganet wrote: post #51

Is this another case of "may this sacrifice appease the rain gods and bring forth a good harvest"?

Perhaps that and "Let me just disembark this sinking ship if I may…" (Sorry she ever boarded?)