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

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Post by marvindanig »

trident5000 wrote: post #403
CloudRecondite wrote: post #391

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Absolutely, I don’t view Tesla as a place top tier talent goes. Twitter much more so.

This seems ridiculous to me. Self driving cars are cutting edge tech. Social media algos are not for the most part, certainly not Twitters. Top talent goes to wherever cutting edge developments are. If I wanted to participate in developing the future I would choose Tesla over Twitter any day.

What self-driving car are you talking about? I’d bet Twitter has had more success in computational neuroscience with their structured tweets than Tesla has had with broken roads.

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

steveBK123 wrote: post #152
nightski wrote: post #78

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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.

That's absolutely insane. Tesla employees are paid by Tesla to do work for Tesla. Freelancing during the workday at Twitter, SpaceX, or any of the other company just because Musk is the owner or CEO is basically wage theft by Musk. How would you feel if he had Tesla assembly line workers renovate his house?

You are living in a dream if you think top executives don't get people working for the company to also do stuff for them.

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Post by acdha »

colechristensen wrote: post #299
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.

You’d only be pissed off if you had a predisposition to dislike elon and then why would you be a TSLA shareholder? This is a tiny amount of money compared to the daily cost of running TSLA and would have zero actual impact to shareholder value. If it isn’t being accounted for correctly, there will be a tiny investor lawsuit and a tiny amount of money changing hands. This is latching on to just anything to complain ab…

> This is a tiny amount of money compared to the daily cost of running TSLA

Software isn’t the same as making floor mats. Your major production factors are having people with the right skills, knowledge, and time to focus — while their salaries are a drop in Tesla’s daily operational cost, the real question should be how much it disrupts their development schedule. Given how far behind they are on features which they’ve already sold, to the point of having government investigations, I’d tend to think that the disruption of pulling them away from their planned work is a lot more expensive than just the time billed.

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Post by tmh88j »

liketochill wrote: post #379
theCrowing wrote: post #337

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Snakeoil salesmen were hugely successful.

Are tesla and spaceX snake oil?

The roadster, semi and cyber truck have that feel. Pepsi is supposed to get semis soon, would be really cool if that works out.

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Waterluvian wrote: post #21

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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Post by throoo0ooowaway »

jjfoooo6 wrote: post #72

I'm curious as to how existing Twitter employees get compensated after the sale. Do they have to stay for some amount of time to collect payouts on their shares? These actions only make logical sense if the goal is to make life unpleasant for employees, and get a lot of them to quit.

When Dell was taken private, RSUs were converted to cash bonuses at the sale price. Most likely option.

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Post by uptownfunk »

aroman wrote: post #413
alerighi wrote: post #393

This is a very stupid thing to do. First, code is not the issue. Code can be rewritten in not a lot of time, when you have clear what to write. Twitter is not something so complex, in principle, thus it shouldn't be that difficult (a team of 10 good programmers in a month can probably rewrite everything). The thing where is 99% of the complexity and you can't redesign in a month is the infrastructure, how data is sto…

> a team of 10 good programmers in a month can probably rewrite everything unless you scope-down "everything" to the point of triviality, that is ludicrously underestimating the intrinsic complexity of twitter's product surface, and all the plumbing and necessary tools that lie beneath

Probably not as hard as it seems, Amazon does this regularly with the concept of 2 pizza team. The real challenge is figuring out what is the 20% of Twitter that drives 80% of revenue. Probably basic Twitter posting and ads, and whatever fraud/bot prevention is needed to keep running smoothly.

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Post by trident5000 »

alerighi wrote: post #393

This is a very stupid thing to do. First, code is not the issue. Code can be rewritten in not a lot of time, when you have clear what to write. Twitter is not something so complex, in principle, thus it shouldn't be that difficult (a team of 10 good programmers in a month can probably rewrite everything). The thing where is 99% of the complexity and you can't redesign in a month is the infrastructure, how data is sto…

Its not stupid because he knows and trusts his engineers at Tesla. He knows nobody at Twitter. Hes probably trying to get an understanding of whats going on without relying on a bunch of employees who might not like him. It takes a while to build an employee base you trust, certainly in his situation.

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Post by throoo0ooowaway »

ergocoder wrote: post #402
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #121

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Sure looks that way. https://twitter.com/leahculver/status/1586145696163373056

She later tweeted "Just following orders" on the Musk's tweet "comedy is now legal on Twitter". Are we sure this news is even real? I have several friends at Twitter who said they didn't hear anything about that. Leah Culver is also the one who bought the pinked painted lady for $3m. She has the fuck you money and doesn't really need any job. This is not the first time for journalists to fall for pranks either. Just…

it definitely happened.

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Post by trident5000 »

braingenious wrote: post #151

All 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.

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