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Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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I’m still looking for a concise term for “someone who claims to be an expert but immediately reveals beyond any doubt that they have no clue what they’re saying, simply by opening their mouth on the subject.” Having Tesla engineers over to review Twitter code is definitely that. It’s ridiculous.

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I’m using this. It’s amazing. And when people ask I’ll enjoy giving your explanation.

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

#112

This is pretty standard procedure when a company gets bought. The new owners will conduct a review and decide who to keep and who to get rid of. They have probably been given a target of how many people they want to lay off and are evaluating who is worth keeping. It’s not worth staying at a company that gets acquired, you’ll either get laid off or be asked to do the same work with less people, and awful morale.

Respectfully, very little of this seems to be operating by standard procedure. Have you seen the incoming CEO ask people to bring printouts of their code, ever?

you don't like comedy?

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

#113

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I'm not pissed and I am a stockholder. To me it makes a lot of sense. I doubt they are reviewing the entire code base. It seems like Elon is particularly interested in the automated systems that control content and detect bots. To that end, Tesla has a lot of expertise in AI systems.

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Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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I'd be pissed off if I were a TSLA stock owner. Is Twitter paying Tesla to contract out these employees for their work? Otherwise, it's tons of thousands of dollars Tesla is pissing away on behalf of the CEO's side-hustle.

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I hope this is parody. I agree with being pragmatic and not being arbitrarily constrained, but this comes off as fanatical.

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

#115

I’m still looking for a concise term for “someone who claims to be an expert but immediately reveals beyond any doubt that they have no clue what they’re saying, simply by opening their mouth on the subject.” Having Tesla engineers over to review Twitter code is definitely that. It’s ridiculous.

Might you think that they're not actually reviewing code and that the journalists are idiots? Because all evidence I've seen about journalism is that it's completely skin deep and often blatantly wrong. It's likely the engineers are reviewing architecture and looking at how the whole system works.

wasn’t this from actual employees?

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

#116
post #65

I'd be pissed off if I were a TSLA stock owner. Is Twitter paying Tesla to contract out these employees for their work? Otherwise, it's tons of thousands of dollars Tesla is pissing away on behalf of the CEO's side-hustle.

I'm not pissed and I am a stockholder. To me it makes a lot of sense. I doubt they are reviewing the entire code base. It seems like Elon is particularly interested in the automated systems that control content and detect bots. To that end, Tesla has a lot of expertise in AI systems.

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Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

#117
post #65

I'd be pissed off if I were a TSLA stock owner. Is Twitter paying Tesla to contract out these employees for their work? Otherwise, it's tons of thousands of dollars Tesla is pissing away on behalf of the CEO's side-hustle.

I'm not pissed and I am a stockholder. To me it makes a lot of sense. I doubt they are reviewing the entire code base. It seems like Elon is particularly interested in the automated systems that control content and detect bots. To that end, Tesla has a lot of expertise in AI systems.

Then why were they reviewing unrelated codebases? iOS, Android? This doesn't hold up

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

#118
post #65

I'd be pissed off if I were a TSLA stock owner. Is Twitter paying Tesla to contract out these employees for their work? Otherwise, it's tons of thousands of dollars Tesla is pissing away on behalf of the CEO's side-hustle.

I'm not pissed and I am a stockholder. To me it makes a lot of sense. I doubt they are reviewing the entire code base. It seems like Elon is particularly interested in the automated systems that control content and detect bots. To that end, Tesla has a lot of expertise in AI systems.

AI as practiced in self driving cars is dramatically different than what is practiced in bot detection.

Self driving has a well defined, static problem space, with inputs that don't change often (how often do they come out with a new street sign?).

Twitter is combatting distributed adversaries who are constantly adjusting their approach in evading detection.

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

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Surprised how sceptical all the comments here are. Dick or not the guy has a talent for building companies

Particularly interesting argument they’re making too, that Twitter is a bunch of write-only code, unreadable by any other engineers.

Re: Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said

#120

Didn't Musk get rich solving complex problems? The ink isn't even dry yet and there is a rush to judgement, speculation, and wild assumptions that are simply shameful. How many cars did Tesla sell on the day after his investment?

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That's a dumb internet myth that will never die.
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