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This seems suspect. Without more confirmation, I’d hold off on believing this narrative in its entirety
by meany 4y ago
This seems suspect. Without more confirmation, I’d hold off on believing this narrative in its entirety
- valleyer 4y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/business/twitter-elon-musk.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/business/twitter-elon-mus... > Amid layoff fears, some Twitter employees were instructed to print out copies of the code they had written recently as possible proof of work, said two people with knowledge of the situation. https://twitter.com/leahculver/status/1586145696163373056 https://twitter.com/leahculver/status/1586145696163373056
- prepend 4y agoIn what world is a print out of code proof of work? This sounds way too stupid to be believable. Perhaps the two people don’t have knowledge of the situation.
- lapcat 4y ago> Perhaps the two people don’t have knowledge of the situation. How about the photo of the Twitter engineer holding her printed source code? I also saw tweets from other Twitter engineers talking about printing out their code.
- freemrkt8 4y agoPerhaps Twitter is staffed by middle managers who sell well in interviews but have zero fucking clue. I’d like to see Twitter fire the cottage industry of professional non-contributors that has seeped into tech for the pay. Employees like the TikToking “Facebook PM” who showed off 20 mins of emailing for work and the rest of the day brunching/lunching with their crew need to go.
- valleyer 4y agoTFA says that the code was to be printed to show to Musk, not to these middle managers.
- freemrkt8 4y agoAnxiety and a lot of gossip can make people do dumb things, like make non-technical middle managers issue stupid edicts because they don’t know about git logs. I’ve worked for orgs where engineer head count alone pushed 250 people. The number of people in power with no technical skills managing technical workers was a huge waste of time.
- ShamelessC 4y agoYou seem to be responding to points not made by the article (or the person you’re responding to).
- freemrkt8 4y agoThe article was observed, not the events. I know PR people who plant such articles for profit, all the details are vague enough to seem possible. Even the supposed pictures of eng folk with printed code could be in on the gag. CNBC got trolled by a guy faking being an ex Twitter staffer. Someone from Twitter posted “the algorithm” repo as a troll on Musk. Why not troll the public and traditional media who are far more obsessed with office life than doing real things for others? Why bother taking the article seriously? It’s unverifiable. I see no reason to give it a sincere discussion.
- ShamelessC 4y agoContext, mostly. This extra discussion in your reply is actually fair and suitable as a top-level comment.
- cwilkes 4y agoIt’s a world where an oversized ego overpaid by twice for a platform that can’t run itself without constant work. Of course the best way to get it to run smoothly is have people show their work with printouts to prove that they shouldn’t be fired.
- nowherebeen 4y agoPeople outside SV think its full of smart people, but when you work there, you will see how real the TV show Silicon Valley is. I am convinced if not for the money, a lot of people would leave.
- pwdisswordfish9 4y agoJust you wait until you see Printcoin
- evouga 4y agoFWIW I’ve heard a story essentially identical to what’s described in that Tweet directly from one of the engineers asked to print their code.
- jamesjansson 4y agoYes, this sounds SOOOO bad that it is unbelievable, no self-respecting engineer would do that. Yet Elon did it.