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

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Post by newZWhoDis »

the_doctah wrote: post #41
jstx1 wrote: post #3

> One former Tesla engineer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the matter but was not involved, said Tesla engineers would have trouble capably assessing Twitter’s code. Distributed systems, the large-scale and spread-out network that Twitter is composed of, are not the automaker’s specialty, the person said. > The “idea of Elon being flanked by his Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter code is…

What hubris to think that your system is so complex that other engineers couldn't understand it.

Also what hubris of the Twitter engineers, who seem to be in this thread, thinking anything they built was that special.

Your video player somehow managed to be worse than Reddit, the perennial joke of web dev.

Not to mention “something went wrong” again and again, maybe by the 4th reload would a linked tweet actually show up for me.

I’m on 25 gig symmetrical fiber with <10ms to my local AWS hub, FWIW

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

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Post by zerohp »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #71
jstx1 wrote: post #3

> One former Tesla engineer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the matter but was not involved, said Tesla engineers would have trouble capably assessing Twitter’s code. Distributed systems, the large-scale and spread-out network that Twitter is composed of, are not the automaker’s specialty, the person said. > The “idea of Elon being flanked by his Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter code is…

Tesla engineers don't just work on in-vehicle code though. The servers and systems needed to implement Tesla's telemetry and software updates would be in the same ballpark of expertise, albeit with much less scale and different requirements than Twitter. But Musk got started by confounding x.com/PayPal, which does have very similar engineering needs as Twitter. It's not like Musk is a newbie to this stuff, people pre…

All stories from the x.com/Paypal days say that he was entirely clueless during that time. The board removed him.

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

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Post by bloqs »

nightski wrote: post #78
ipqk wrote: 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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Post by apavlo »

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #71
jstx1 wrote: post #3

> One former Tesla engineer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the matter but was not involved, said Tesla engineers would have trouble capably assessing Twitter’s code. Distributed systems, the large-scale and spread-out network that Twitter is composed of, are not the automaker’s specialty, the person said. > The “idea of Elon being flanked by his Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter code is…

Tesla engineers don't just work on in-vehicle code though. The servers and systems needed to implement Tesla's telemetry and software updates would be in the same ballpark of expertise, albeit with much less scale and different requirements than Twitter. But Musk got started by confounding x.com/PayPal, which does have very similar engineering needs as Twitter. It's not like Musk is a newbie to this stuff, people pre…

> But Musk got started by confounding x.com/PayPal, which does have very similar engineering needs as Twitter.

But PayPal was running Oracle on IBM bigiron machines even after Musk left them.

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Post by uoaei »

Aeolun wrote: post #125
jstx1 wrote: post #3

> One former Tesla engineer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the matter but was not involved, said Tesla engineers would have trouble capably assessing Twitter’s code. Distributed systems, the large-scale and spread-out network that Twitter is composed of, are not the automaker’s specialty, the person said. > The “idea of Elon being flanked by his Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter code is…

What a weird thing to say. I can evaluate any code. If it’s code I’m unfamiliar with it takes longer, and the result is more variable, but it’s far from impossible. It’s certainly more reliable than the evaluation of the person whose job depends on it being evaluated as correct.

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Post by CogitoCogito »

recuter wrote: post #108
jstx1 wrote: post #3

> One former Tesla engineer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly describe the matter but was not involved, said Tesla engineers would have trouble capably assessing Twitter’s code. Distributed systems, the large-scale and spread-out network that Twitter is composed of, are not the automaker’s specialty, the person said. > The “idea of Elon being flanked by his Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter code is…

> Distributed systems, the large-scale and spread-out network that Twitter is composed of, are not the automaker’s specialty, the person said. You can giggle along with the anonymous source who wasn't involved if you wish but Tesla collects a rather large amount of telemetry and has all manner of micro services crap internally just like Twitter. I imagine the Twitter codebase itself is a farcical Rube Goldberg machin…

> I imagine the Twitter codebase itself is a farcical Rube Goldberg machine.

I'd presume Tesla's codebase is exactly the same.

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Post by helf »

JohnJamesRambo wrote: post #98
nightski wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Post by abledon »

Salgat wrote: post #31
toomanyrichies wrote: post #14

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SpaceX does the same thing with Tesla engineers, and they pay contracting fees to do this, which is completely above board legally speaking.

The MaterialsScience team works across SpaceX,Tesla,BoringCo
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