Twitter engineer says company 'like a building where all the pieces are on fire'
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Twitter's interim CEO has a track record pushing the pace of automation. He has the mindset for an ordinary person to operate a space capsule or ev car with advanced chips behind the scenes doing the automation. The following comment on his Twitter is more amusing than the one he made to an audience at E3
This is arguably the most mind-blowing thing about "reality"
A practical limit to digits of pi is how many are needed to
divide the universe into Planck voxels"Twitter's layoffs have resulted in an extensive reorganization of remaining workers, the engineer told the BBC. He said that one "totally new" staff member without expertise was now doing a job that used to be done by more than 20 people. The New York Times previously reported that some junior employees have been left in charge of areas they haven't worked on before."
It's a bit like driving around on a donut; Sure you can do it but it's not stable, durable, or performant.
* EDIT: I’m just riffing off the bizarre “Russia must not win” messaging everybody’s mindlessly repeating since the Munich security conference. The media’s taking the same tack in both cases.