There's no context in which many of his actions make sense. He ranked people based on lines of code written, immediately fired thousands of them based on that o

There's no context in which many of his actions make sense. He ranked people based on lines of code written, immediately fired thousands of them based on that objectively stupid metric, than immediately tried to rehire a bunch of them because the company couldn't function without them. "Random flailing" is the most charitable way to characterize that.