Greg TeatherDec 21, 2022

Saw that Elon and George Hotz were on Twitter Spaces last night discussing how Twitter 2.0 needs a total rewrite and immediately thought of this 22-year-old @spolsky blog: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/

I was not in the "Twitter will immediately fall over because 80% of the engineers are gone" camp; but am definitely in the "Twitter will fall over repeatedly if they try to migrate to a total rewrite" camp.

Things You Should Never Do, Part I

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However for those seeking schadenfreude, a more likely outcome is Twitter making some modest change; and Elon heralding the completion of "some codename" project and making a bunch of unverifiable claims.
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