He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software and Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit anyone's ever said, so when people say he's a genius I figured I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

@rodhilton You obviously know nothing about software. Elon will show the world his true genius as soon as he single-handedly rewrites entire Twitter stack... in PHP...

@hu_logic @rodhilton

Elon read a blog from 10 years ago where someone claimed to write Twitter in a weekend as a side project, and got all excited that he could rewrite Twitter quickly.

@nobodyzhome It's a distributed systems design interview question, meant to be solved at a high level, in the abstract. I think he literally thinks the implementation is therefore that easy.... 😂🤷 @hu_logic @rodhilton

@reneestephen @nobodyzhome @rodhilton Twitter had to optimize and prioritize network routing between its DCs in order to scale properly. That's the kind of problems such implementation would have to solve at the grunt level.

To get it done right takes time, money and quality engineers.

Elon thinks he can do it with twenty sleep-deprived "10X Hardcore 2.0 SWEs" in 6 months on a shoestring budget... while shutting down several DCs in January.

@hu_logic Worse, the system is currently still running because of those engineers and he is slapping himself on the back for it not failing outright when they left... as if they were literally running on little hamster wheels to route the packets themselves or something. Idk, the guy is a deeply stupid grifter.

I'm mad about him destroying a community and some cool tech because he is so deeply insecure.

A lot of us screamed this for a decade+, and now it's too late.
@nobodyzhome @rodhilton