@hu_logic @rodhilton

Elon read a blog from 10 years ago where someone claimed to write Twitter in a weekend as a side project, and got all excited that he could rewrite Twitter quickly.

@reneestephen @nobodyzhome @rodhilton Twitter had to optimize and prioritize network routing between its DCs in order to scale properly. That's the kind of problems such implementation would have to solve at the grunt level.

To get it done right takes time, money and quality engineers.

Elon thinks he can do it with twenty sleep-deprived "10X Hardcore 2.0 SWEs" in 6 months on a shoestring budget... while shutting down several DCs in January.

@hu_logic Worse, the system is currently still running because of those engineers and he is slapping himself on the back for it not failing outright when they left... as if they were literally running on little hamster wheels to route the packets themselves or something. Idk, the guy is a deeply stupid grifter.

I'm mad about him destroying a community and some cool tech because he is so deeply insecure.

A lot of us screamed this for a decade+, and now it's too late.
@nobodyzhome @rodhilton

@reneestephen @nobodyzhome @rodhilton Imagine you're part of 10X Hardcore 2.0 skeleton crew and have been troubleshooting Sev1 production issue for a week. As a result, you haven't had any time to write any "code" so Elon fired you...

Then, it turns out that Sev1 was caused by Elon randomly unplugging shit in the DC...

@hu_logic @reneestephen @nobodyzhome @rodhilton It is *literally* what a chaos monkey is. Usually the idea is the chaos monkey is a concept or tool, not an actual guy let alone the CEO.

The line about Rube Goldberg is a pretty strong hint about what he doesn’t know about engineering, too.