Rod HiltonDec 25, 2022

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

Show threadLt.Cpl Хуёвый ПчеловодDec 25, 2022
@rodhilton You obviously know nothing about software. Elon will show the world his true genius as soon as he single-handedly rewrites entire Twitter stack... in PHP...
Show threadnobodyzhome Dec 25, 2022

@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.

Show threadRenéeDec 25, 2022
@nobodyzhome It's a distributed systems design interview question, meant to be solved at a high level, in the abstract. I think he literally thinks the implementation is therefore that easy.... 😂🤷 @hu_logic @rodhilton
Show threadLt.Cpl Хуёвый ПчеловодDec 25, 2022

@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.

Show threadRenéeDec 25, 2022

@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

Show threadLt.Cpl Хуёвый ПчеловодDec 25, 2022

@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...

Show threadNeal ParikhDec 25, 2022
@hu_logic @reneestephen @nobodyzhome @rodhilton Your screenshot was so ridiculous I just wasted time going to confirm that it was real.
Show threadLt.Cpl Хуёвый ПчеловодDec 25, 2022
@nparikh @reneestephen @nobodyzhome @rodhilton NGL, I lost some braincells and faith in humanity reading his Tweet - "Twitter stack is so shit that I've unplugged half of its nodes and it still works! See? Total rewrite!"
Show threadMGoCoderDec 25, 2022
@hu_logic @nparikh @reneestephen @nobodyzhome @rodhilton Yeah apparently the self-proclaimed “smartest person in the world” has never heard of redundancy or failover clusters.
Show threadRenée

@MGoCoder I mean, where would he have? For real making cars is all low-latency on-prem automation and MechEng, a lot of factories are deeply bad at BI data and observability, even newer ones. Same with rocketry.

He also hasn't had people at Twitter whose job it was to explain this shit to him and steer him away from the worst ideas (or just ignore him/lie to him and do what should be done despite him), like in his other companies.

@hu_logic @nparikh @nobodyzhome @rodhilton

Dec 25, 2022 at 6:11pmWeb
Show threadThe Book of KelsDec 25, 2022

@reneestephen @MGoCoder @hu_logic @nparikh @nobodyzhome @rodhilton

I've seen the stories about how at Tesla and SpaceX (and, presumably, Neuralink), they have a thick layer of bureaucracy to manage him specifically.

Full self-driving aside, his main two companies manage because he's not doing the engineering, and just knows a bit of the jargon. Twitter, he's actually trying to do the work and showing off he doesn't know how.