@parismarx Yup.. that's Elon!

A clown 🤡

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It's almost like he doesn't know his head from his ass when it comes to coding.

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Almost 23 years old, this one *did* age well:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/

"The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they’ve been fixed."

"[this code] has grown little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well, I’ll tell you why: those are bug fixes. One of them fixes that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the thing on a computer that didn’t have Internet Explorer."

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Rewrites of code always brings new problems, new bugs and new issues.

Considering that he fired most of the twitter staff, they A) have lost too much institutionional knowledge of how their own platform works and B) Don't have enough staff to write code.

Musk is a fraud.

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@parismarx, very interesting comment on this tweet! I did not know that!

Additionally, rewriting a codebase is costly( and introduces new bugs ). Twitter revenue is down 40% and most of his staff is gone.

Given what you wrote, Musk didn't learn his lesson at PayPal.

OTOH maybe he did and that tweet is just noise for an attempt to distract people from his incompetence as a CEO.

@parismarx "A small API change" ... like completely overhauling everything to have a payment system in front of the API?

"massive ramifications" ... like needing to make sure the rest of your own system can bypass that new payment layer?

It all seems rather predictable to me, and I'm not even one of the SREs he probably shouldn't have fired.

What a clown.

@parismarx lol, yes the pain of code if one line fails the rest crumbles.

Add a try and create exception should work better .

@parismarx It's almost like certain types of people don't learn from their mistakes

Or more accurately, don't think they're mistakes, and therefore there's nothing to learn.

@parismarx corporate FOMO: He sees WeChat and Telegram being "everything apps" and wants in, too.

Provided you're in China, you can pay bills, order takeout, pay for haircuts, send money, check the weather, publish updates, scan QR codes, subscribe to newsletters, play games, and send messages on WeChat.

But that's not Twitter.

@parismarx The big secret is that Musk is adept at failing upwards, and has no more idea of how to manage a software company, moreover its internal lifecycle and stability, than your average middle manager on a power trip.

Of course all of us devs who have had power-trippy middle managers have been screaming this from the rafters since the beginnings, but Elon's fans aren't ready for the conversation of what he actually knows, versus what he pretends to know.

@parismarx Aside yet somehow Prescient,

In July of 2017

he re-acquired http://X.com/

buying it back from PayPal.