What impact? None. I don't think many actual programmers take Musk seriously, despite his claims to possess expertise in software development, engineering, logi

What impact? None. I don't think many actual programmers take Musk seriously, despite his claims to possess expertise in software development, engineering, logistics, management, etc. A dilettante who takes credit for the work of other people remains a dilettante. People with actual expertise and experience programming have talked and written about simplicity and complexity and managing it for decades. Brian Kernighan wrote "Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming" back in 1976 (in Software Tools), and at the time he just expressed what programmers had discovered a long time before.