Musk is a seller above all else. Every day he finds a new way to draw attention to his projects. The news about Twitter give him even more distribution and by nature more sales towards Tesla and his other companies. Tesla engineers on site for interviews is a great idea for Twitter and for Tesla as both get more PR than before. A lot of people have lost interest in Twitter for more than political reasons and I’m excited to see what he does with the product, specifically introducing more alternatives to advertising and showing social products can monetize as agents of their users, not just parasites of attention.
Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
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#262I’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.
WaPo is not HuffPo.
Generally, you can still trust the real news coming out of places like the Post and Times to at least be accurately fact checked.
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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?
Musk is reportedly looking to cut deadweight before Nov 1st when equity vests -- with layoffs possibly happening over the weekend. He might already have a basic idea of key teams and for non-key teams he might be looking to cut very fast. I absolutely have done things like this when acquiring companies - sat with people, asked them to basically interview for their own jobs while showing me the most important thing th…
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#264> 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.
Agreed. I had the opportunity to audit a FAANG codebase (many many repositories) a while back and while I'm a lowly engineer, I was able to start understanding quite a bit after a few weeks. Obviously there's no way I could contribute or make recommendations in that short time, but obvious smells start working their way out after exposure. The clarity only increases with the amount of time spent immersed in it.
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#265I'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.
Not all it has a stellar reputation
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People always do this with Elon... it doesn't matter if he's making cars, building rockets or taking on social media, the general consensus is that he doesn't know what he's doing and will fail. But, who's the richest man in the room? Who was right and who was wrong? People can hate on Elon all they want, but it's pure ignorance to think that we know any better. Let the man work his magic, I'm curious to see what he…
He was given the money, team, idea, and government connections by this guy for SpaceX at least: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
I'm glad there are enough people out there helping to support his ventures.
Can totally understand how people say "it's lonely at the top"...
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I’m a TSLA holder and I don’t mind at all. The everyday minutiae don’t concern me as long as the big picture for Tesla is in focus and with in reach
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You're thinking of Twitter (TWTR). TSLA is Tesla, which is still publically traded.
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#269All of this is so funny in general. It seems possible that Twitter might go the way of Tumblr in that goofy policy changes alienate the core userbase. I couldn’t imagine betting billions of dollars on a property that could basically just become a valuable-ish domain in the future.
Comparing Twitter to Tumblr is laughable. The same thing that happened to tumblr cannot happen to twitter.
Why?
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#270Comments are just full of people who want to bring down Musk for the most trivial things without acknowledging the amount of good he has put forth. FYI, I don't own a Tesla or own their stock or own any stock in Musk owned companies. I don't even follow his twitter account.
That’s because you can start a buncha stuff that ends up great and still be a raging narcissistic man-child. And a whole lot of people want to just overlook everything because “he makes a lot of money” or “I like this tech thing”
What are your thoughts on EVs and SpaceX?