Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 12:24 PM UTC

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Let's say you work for elon musk and are a decent person…

Why would you start to work for elon musk if you consider yourself a decent person, but him unworkable for? Have you not heard of elon musk beforehand...? Did you let yourself be employed with the specific goal of sabotaging the work, in what must be the least effective (but certainly very lucrative) coup possible? What is it? Am I to believe this person is a chaotic mastermind? Or a selfish idiot? Or non-existant?

Post by thordenmark » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 12:30 PM UTC

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In an interview with xAI I was literally told that certain parts of the model have to align with Elon, and that Elon can call us and demand anything at anytime. No thanks!

From my time at Tesla, this is 100% the case. When Elon asked for something, it was “drop what you are doing and deliver it”, then you got pressed to still deliver the thing you were already working on against the original timeline before the interrupt.

Post by 3371 » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 12:32 PM UTC

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I don't believe that for a second. More likely, infosec tends to attract more results-oriented personalities. To generalize, "who cares what you look like as long as you're good?" As a consequence of that, infosec tends to be a lot more welcoming than other groups I've been around. As long as you act nicely, people generally don't care if you're man, women, both, neither, or a gay horse. And it seems like there's bee…

This is the first time I hear someone equate furries and trans with “results-oriented personalities.” [1] Not saying they necessarily are not, but it’s finding correlation where there absolutely isn’t one just to disagree with actual evidence. Yeah, I’m gonna go with Occam’s razor on this one. 1: where is the trans furries representation in senior management and other “results-oriented” fields?

Post by astura » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 12:36 PM UTC

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Tesla won because Elon is a great seller, the product is mediocre at best but I’ve heard many times from friends that it was the same quality as a Mercedes Benz, so the reality distortion field is very real. And Americans in general don’t want electric cars for some reason. I’m happily driving my Buzz and charging on my solar panels instead of paying 5 bucks a gallon on diesel. The propaganda here is strong and peopl…

> the product is mediocre at best I'm not a Tesla fanboy, last year was the first time I bought one (new Model Y), but it is by far the best car I've ever owned, and the FSD blew my mind with how much better it was than I expected. My wife hates Elon, and has a new hybrid Mitsubishi, but she still drives my Model Y all the time because it's just so much better to drive. What are you basing the 'mediocre' opinion on?

Post by Rover222 » Sat, Mar 14, 2026, 12:45 PM UTC

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It’s flawed, but still the obvious place to monitor a situation.

It's long been taken over by Telegram, which among its other advantages (more like a message board than 'town square'), doesn't have hordes of people commenting "@grok explain this to me" under every post.