Musk antagonist George Hotz hired to fix Twitter search – he’s got 12 weeks

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8 pointsreteltech3 comments

I forgot where I read this.. but there is a key difference between people who hack a v0 of a product and people who maintain and manage v1+.

My reading is that Geohotz is a v0 kind of hacker. He can build things fast and without him, there might not be a v1. However, people coming after him do have to clean up and maintain the code for all the other normal folks. I am not sure if a v0 person coming in to clean up an existing set of systems is a great idea. They generally do not do well in a constrained situation and their instinct would be to throw everything out and start from scratch.

He won't build on the existing thing, he'll parallel build a totally different thing, which may or may not end up being better.

I’m very curious about how governance is handled at Twitter right now, anything he would want to build would have to run on what - a hundred, or maybe even a thousand node cluster, if he wanted to build it in parallel, is Musk going to fund that? Are they going to build it in AWS where costs would be astronomical.

What’s the time frame of the search and what existing tools might he be using to enable it, Manhattan I guess?

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