Tesla engineers takeover Twitter Codebase

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9 points·microguy··8 comments

I'm a little confused why employees of a public company like Tesla are being used to work on a project for a private holding. Unless it was Tesla that acquired Twitter and I misunderstood?

Why is the public/private distinction relevant? The situation is equivalent to Musk hiring some engineers to work at Twitter that used to work at Tesla. They're no longer paid by Tesla, they're now paid by Twitter. Seems perfectly fine but this tweet and its associated account is not actually a reliable source of information, the tweet is basically fake news and is designed to maximize engagement.

This really doesn't seem like a good idea.

I've seen exactly this situation before and it went to hell pretty quickly. The new engineers genuinely have no idea what they have on their hands until something goes snap. And it will go snap.

Just a matter of time before Twitter runs over a pedestrian.

I kind of think it would be better to have Tesla engineers working on the Tesla codebase since they're familiar with it instead of moving them over to the Twitter codebase that they'll need to come up to speed on.

Maybe they will do for Twitter what they did for driverless cars.

not a good signal to send to all those lazy liberal programmers at twitter, but why would you worry about brain drain or morale at the company you just bought, but also seem to actively hate and have tried all summer to smear and denigrate. 4-d chess, I am sure

What do Twitter engineers / product employees do when the code is frozen?

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