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> Tesla's embedded developers did not understand the extremely simple concept of write endurance Equally likely is that they do understand but just don't care.
by threeseed 6y ago
> Tesla's embedded developers did not understand the extremely simple concept of write endurance
Equally likely is that they do understand but just don't care.
From all accounts, Tesla seems to have a culture of move fast and break things.
- dheera 6y agoA lot of this also stems from a culture of quarterly earnings reports and idiotic "fiduciary" duty to some shareholders instead of the primary duty being to customers and humanity. The incentives are fundamentally defined in the wrong way, and the system has just optimized itself for the those incentives.
- totalZero 6y agoThat can be forgivable in some situations, but Move Fast And Break Customers? Not so much.
- quicklime 6y agoIt's even worse to move customers fast and break innocent bystanders.
- crocodiletears 6y agoNah, not as bad. They aren't a source of revenue. Now if the bystander also owned a Tesla…
- gkoberger 6y agoHmm I don't want to defend Tesla, but I do want to push back on this a bit! Facebook made "move fast and break things" famous, which was Zuckerberg's way of presenting a tradeoff. Everyone company says they want to move fast, but Zuckerberg made it clear that the company should care more about velocity than stability. I don't believe that's Tesla's attitude. Rather, I think their attitude is more "move fast and ignore regulations". It's not that things won't break, but rather that the tradeoff Tesla is making is around regulation rather than things breaking.
- andi999 6y agoAlso I think it was just to cover the backs of FB engineers. Like you implement a new feature and you are afraid you get scolded because it broke something. You know you are covered. So you dare to change things. Actually was there even a handful of cases where things broke? (And I am sure FB will get rid of the engineer who breaks too many things)
- gkoberger 6y agoYup, that's exactly it! So, the culture was "it's okay to break things as long as you're moving fast". I don't think Telsa explicitly would say "it's okay to break things" to their engineers, but I do think they'd say "it's okay to ignore regulations". In the end, they may have the same results, however it's all about what employees know they're safe getting away with.
- WA 6y agoTesla might actually say: "Everybody, we need to push end of quarter sales. You gotta release the FSD as it is. App team, you gotta implement some butt purchase button for FSD that has no undo. Thanks."
- lazyasciiart 6y agoBut things have literally broken.
- spicybright 6y agoYou have to kill a few people to make an omelette, as they say.
- gkoberger 6y agoSure, but I think you're missing my point.
- JohnJamesRambo 6y agoRegulations are all we have to keep things from breaking...ignoring them about something like a self driving car should be a criminal offense.