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Elon sure reminds me of an inexperienced, over-confident (or "just enough experience to be dangerous") software engineer at times. One who has enough experienc

Elon sure reminds me of an inexperienced, over-confident (or "just enough experience to be dangerous") software engineer at times. One who has enough experience to see flaws in an existing (or "legacy") system and feel they could do better if they just rewrote it all from scratch, but not enough experience (or too much hubris) to know how well that does or does not go in practice. He may be right, of course. I'm just pattern matching on what he sounds like...

bmitc 4y ago
We shouldn't beat around the bush. Musk has shown very few times that he has any idea what he is talking about. His tweet sounds identical to some middle manager's sentiment you'd get at some huge conglomerate trying to make a name for themself after taking over a group. And it should be noted that he's responding to another tech billionaire who fancies himself as an oracle as well. This is like throwing around verbal spars at the water cooler at the local squash club.
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- mrhands556 4y ago
  At his level who has had consistently more or the same level of success doing something similar to him? I don’t understand all the Elon hate lately outside of people being bias for the sake of the narrative.
  - bmitc 4y ago
    I don't equate entrepreneurial success with knowing what you're talking about. Even Elon's entrepreneurial success is debatable with there being many stories of SpaceX and Tesla being successful despite Musk.
  - eNV25 4y ago
    Probably plenty, they're just not famous.
  - quantified 4y ago
    His level of what? Wealth? There's like 0-3 others. So what? Lottery winners show no more skill than anyone else. Visibility? Well, you've got Zuck (no what's-her-face in hiding from Meta anymore), not Jack Dorsey anymore, no Sergey or Larry or Bill or Steve... I can't think of anyone outside of tech. Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, they're more visible and seem to have a hard time keeping things together, especially since end of Bush, but they didn't fire half their workforce and make their operations break down frequently. I give Clinton and Obama decent marks for leaving the economy in a good shape for their successors to screw up. Jimmy Carter had great success in his endeavors. Eptitude? I think the ept have avoided getting snared in awful deals like Elon stuck his finger into. I think we're at the bottom of the second inning of this game of Twitter-ball. Let's see how it goes from here now that the team is down to a bare roster.
about3fitty 4y ago
1 point by about3fitty 0 minutes ago | root | parent | next | edit | delete [–] I’m of the opposite opinion. At this stage, he has heard the counter arguments. He is smart enough to know what he is doing. I genuinely think he is making these statements to wind us up, though I don’t guess as to why.
- motoxpro 4y ago
  I think maybe the service just takes more people than he thought. You could make the argument that "it shouldn't take as many people as it did" i.e. the code quality "is bad" Or you could say "this is hard and takes people to make sure it works." You will always find that "the code is brittle" as you get rid of more and more people if your assumption is that the service should run with no oversight and no people
jiveturkey 4y ago
commonly called the novice expert

bmitc 4y ago

We shouldn't beat around the bush. Musk has shown very few times that he has any idea what he is talking about. His tweet sounds identical to some middle manager's sentiment you'd get at some huge conglomerate trying to make a name for themself after taking over a group. And it should be noted that he's responding to another tech billionaire who fancies himself as an oracle as well. This is like throwing around verbal spars at the water cooler at the local squash club.

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mrhands556 4y ago
At his level who has had consistently more or the same level of success doing something similar to him? I don’t understand all the Elon hate lately outside of people being bias for the sake of the narrative.
- bmitc 4y ago
  I don't equate entrepreneurial success with knowing what you're talking about. Even Elon's entrepreneurial success is debatable with there being many stories of SpaceX and Tesla being successful despite Musk.
- eNV25 4y ago
  Probably plenty, they're just not famous.
- quantified 4y ago
  His level of what? Wealth? There's like 0-3 others. So what? Lottery winners show no more skill than anyone else. Visibility? Well, you've got Zuck (no what's-her-face in hiding from Meta anymore), not Jack Dorsey anymore, no Sergey or Larry or Bill or Steve... I can't think of anyone outside of tech. Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, they're more visible and seem to have a hard time keeping things together, especially since end of Bush, but they didn't fire half their workforce and make their operations break down frequently. I give Clinton and Obama decent marks for leaving the economy in a good shape for their successors to screw up. Jimmy Carter had great success in his endeavors. Eptitude? I think the ept have avoided getting snared in awful deals like Elon stuck his finger into. I think we're at the bottom of the second inning of this game of Twitter-ball. Let's see how it goes from here now that the team is down to a bare roster.

about3fitty 4y ago

1 point by about3fitty 0 minutes ago | root | parent | next | edit | delete [–] I’m of the opposite opinion. At this stage, he has heard the counter arguments. He is smart enough to know what he is doing. I genuinely think he is making these statements to wind us up, though I don’t guess as to why.

motoxpro 4y ago
I think maybe the service just takes more people than he thought. You could make the argument that "it shouldn't take as many people as it did" i.e. the code quality "is bad" Or you could say "this is hard and takes people to make sure it works." You will always find that "the code is brittle" as you get rid of more and more people if your assumption is that the service should run with no oversight and no people

jiveturkey 4y ago

commonly called the novice expert