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Software deadlines of a week or so? Elon really doesn't knows thing about software management. What a tool - have fun attracting some real pieces of work.

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I'd like to see the missive and exactly what it says. Most journalists have to work at speed and are sloppy as hell, as we've already seen several times in this case. I don't doubt that he wants to instill some urgency. Getting a page up with the higher fee and the new requirements will happen faster than whatever the final authentification scheme is.

Any level of "deadline or you're fired" is trash-level mgmt that will only end up filtering gordon's awful types.

But we know Elon plans to slim staff down a lot; that this is a true change in management. Given that, it's not too surprising to see him draw some lines with ugly consequences on the wrong side of them since he's already said, in effect, that he doesn't need most of these engineers for the product he's planning.

Twitter is not a healthy product or work culture from what I can gather; and large changes in personnel, or the demise of companies, are the only ways we know to genuinely change lousy cultures at companies. Just sending a memo doesn't do it. The economy as a whole is harsh; not always as sudden, but often still more harsh. That's because killing companies is the only reliable way we have of changing company culture. It's capitalism's secret sauce.

it seems like you are expending a lot of effort looking for reasons he isnt just basically a bad / clueless boss in this case. its much more likely he is just blowing it.

It seems to me you're drawing conclusions from sparse evidence. You are of course welcome to your guess, just not to say it's just plain so.

This author uses passive voice and doesn’t say what their source is. The engineers “were told” that they would be fired if they missed the deadline. Who told them that? Who even were the engineers? How does the author know this?

The verge is notorious for bad reporting that gets worse surrounding anything charged in the immediate zeitgeist... i don't trust their reporting at all, when it comes to musk's twitter takeover.

This style of management of software/product teams fills me full of confidence on using autopilot.

Inverted, being an owner/user of autopilot makes me confident in the outcome of this new software endeavor.

I own a 2022 Tesla and it can barely even do lane-keeping for a few hundred yards without jerking the wheel around, requiring "intervention" (aka manual driving), randomly braking for non-existent things and many other problems.

FSD is barely alpha-level software. It's silly to even call it beta at this point. Oh and $15k for it? Don't waste your money.

Indeed.

Twitter wedged under a sideways parked semi trailer in 3.. 2..

some people really are just inspired by authoritarian rule

it's the story of our time

Considering he built and sold software companies for hundreds of millions of dollars I would guess he knows quite a bit more about it than you.

whatever you think i guess

or not - you're just some guy (like him)

so weird how engineers think some people are significant.

i don't and never have

So much, so he developed almost single-handedly the first no-fail level 5 autonomous self-driving car...oh wait, that was just a 'Marketing slogan', my bad.

Musk hasn't built shit, he just uses his diamond mine money to invest in people who do the work for him, he exploits people, nothing more.

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