Elon Musk

I was in the back of my coworker's yesterday and, having moved his kid's car seat, I ended up sitting in a pile of cheez-its

its so funny how he keeps doing that thing where you use jargon to make yourself sound more serious but youre obviously just a poser and everyone hates you

NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at 2pm today. Before doing so, please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past 6 months" 1/

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 18, 2022

lol that’s so deranged what a fucking dumbass

and then he asks for screenshots lmao if youre going to go out of your way to mention the implementation detail of committing you should at least commit yourself to using that system to track the code youre interested in which not coincidentally is the thing its for

Elon Musk is also asking for up 10 screenshots of the "most salient lines of code" from Twitter engineers 2/

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 18, 2022

please fax me a drawing of the best code you have ever written

Imagine having to interview for your job every day

someone in the thread pointed out these emails are just a way of him trying to find out who leaks things to the press. weird but maybe possible?

also, new tweets seem to be loading way slower than before. 5s or more

he seems to make a habit of making people around him repeatedly justify their qualifications for being there, which miiiiight be a bit of projection on his part, maybe something that a forbidden recess of his mind keeps trying to bring up

if i were him and committed to fake cinematic boss bullshit i would at least ask like what ideas of yours have made twitter a million dollars or more, thats actually an interesting thought experiment, and peoples answers would probably at least give you some insight into how they work and think, but some screenshots of code who gives a shit its totally meaningless, ask them how much code theyve deleted its a much more useful activity

"Space Karen" on that streaming projection thing is killing me

^ otm deleting code is the most critical software engineering function

The best code is no code at all.

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lol space karen was good, cant believe they didnt include apartheid clyde tho, makes u wonder if they actually use the product twitter

I was space Karen first, dammit. pic.twitter.com/UvNw3UyhbW

— Dr. Karen James (@kejames) November 18, 2022

lmao

"Space Karen" sounds like a lost David Bowie/Robert Forster collabo.

Elon Musk is also asking for up 10 screenshots of the "most salient lines of code" from Twitter engineers

I had a low opinion of Elon, but I didn't think he was this stupid about software. (assuming this isn't a leak detector)

its not about leaks hes been doing this the whole time number of lines committed was one of the things they looked at when deciding who to fire

Of course he’s this stupid he’s an emerald mine heir that’s not a background that makes you smart

What should Twitter do next?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022

"Word puzzles? Internet dating? Pokemon? What do you guys want?"

Heh

word puzzles def

Twitter should allow users to trade cryptocurrencies directly on the platform.

— Marc (@MarcTheBulll) November 18, 2022

this seems inevitable, or at least some sort of option to buy crypto or showcase your awesome nft artwork

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV4N2dk0cMk

this seems inevitable, or at least some sort of option to buy crypto or showcase your awesome nft artwork

― Karl Malone, Friday, November 18, 2022 12:48 PM (thirty-five seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

and crypto will have its ultimate crash months before they launch

they already have (had?) a thing for nft avs fwiw, it was a hexagon instead of a circle lol

its not about leaks hes been doing this the whole time number of lines committed was one of the things they looked at when deciding who to fire

― lag∞n, Friday, November 18, 2022 9:42 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Of course he’s this stupid he’s an emerald mine heir that’s not a background that makes you smart

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, November 18, 2022 9:44 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah but what is a "salient line of code"??? does he think there's going to be like one line of code that's brilliant and impactful in isolation?

"yeah this line is the differential equation that figures out how to align memory allocation to page boundaries, taking into account virtualization and cache latency"

actually ... brb about to go raise $10M of dumb money

but can you directly buy, sell or trade those nft avatars, on twitter? because wow, when they do that it's going to bring a lot of attention to the amazing auto-generated nft images that are out there and drive up the value. there are some really, really good images out there, people are spending a ton of time looking at them and enjoying them

maybe knowing things would actually in some way impair the pathological lack of self-doubt that has enabled his rise

actually ... brb about to go raise $10M of dumb money

― death generator (lukas), Friday, November 18, 2022 12:54 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the correct reaction lol

I thought all the dumb money was sitting tight right now b/c of the economic climate

I got the impression Musk has no non-superficial nor real interest in code or even productivity necessarily (CEOs have earned a lot of time to 'use their own product' all day sure sure) and this is just a way of filtering out the insubordinates.

theyll get tired of that in like a week, and this whole thing of the big companies firing people is such a charade its not in their nature, just as vcs are built to throw money around big tech companies a built to hoard computer science phds xp

sounds right

the fed is built to inflate bubbles and so forth

I got the impression Musk has no non-superficial nor real interest in code or even productivity necessarily (CEOs have earned a lot of time to 'use their own product' all day sure sure) and this is just a way of filtering out the insubordinates.

― nashwan, Friday, November 18, 2022 12:59 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think he does in some way believe in the c0de, he recently described himself as having been involved in hardcore coding for 20 years

hes trying to bring down the whole damn thing!

The Twitter shitshow is so bad that it's hurting productivity throughout the industry. People just can't look away

— Johnathan Norman (@spoofyroot) November 18, 2022

some SRE comes in with a line of perl that is 100% punctuation

just thinking of what my "10 most brilliant lines of code" would be and I'll be damned if they aren't the exact same ones I get those "why on earth did you do it this way" emails about

lmao

He should put all of his resources into developing AI that allows cars to tweet at other cars while they're driving. That would be the best use of his time.

It would be like the end of "Holy Motors."

haa

Lol pathetic

H/T @Tweetermeyer https://t.co/oJo4hBim4U pic.twitter.com/Kg0LBSFNxV

— JabroniCoin.USD (@TheBenSchmark) November 18, 2022

For a 2p meeting announced at like 8:30a https://t.co/MUuNHYF0ry

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 18, 2022

lmao

I am having a difficult time believing this is real and I am looking at the emails.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 18, 2022

nothing to add but cant believe how bored of slash obsessed with this story i am even though i hate computers

Yeah, I know nothing about coding and I'm still amused at how bad Elon is at coding

have we considered the possibility this guy is in a manic episode and the last week or so is not normal behavior even for him?