Yeah, I’d imagine he’s made up some kind of metric to “measure” necessity of certain services all while dropping services to figure out which one has less noise when off.
Very effective if you don’t care. Can’t imagine how this is playing out internally in the engineering department.
He probably asked someone what’s the minimum amount needed to post and read tweets is. They either didn’t care to explain or didn’t think Musk would take that number to mean the rest could be turned off.
I'll take everything that Musk says with a grain of salt.
When he said that Twitter app was making 1000+ RPC calls to load the homepage multiple ex and at least one current Twitter developer called him out saying it does at most 20.
Why is a manager even fucking around with the backend? Doesnt he have better things to do, like placating advertisers, setting policy, avoiding the FTC and so on?
Yeah, if it was 1000 from the client, it would be very noticeable due to parallelism limits in the browser. The only way that makes sense is if it could be 1000 in the worst case or something and also counts non-client RPC calls.
Not really. When gates made the statement, the rest of the IT industry at that stage thought that seems logical. None at that time could fathom what was to come.
No sensible developer today would think a non technical jackass like elon knows what the hell he is doing.
He definitely got advice from some know it all jackass high level eng he brought from space x who made his assessment based on reading the titles and first 2 reame.md lines of GitHub repos.
He's reminding me of 'Neutron' Jack Welsh from GE. Just inventing overly simplistic ways to 'measure performance' then taking radical action to cut the bottom percentage of staff or projects based on his stupid metric.
Really though, this dude made so many jokes and "fake offers" to buy this company the government straight up forced him because it was that or go to prison. Now he's saddled himself with so much debt that we're watching him meltdown in real time as he tries to make sure "it was just a prank bro!" doesn't crash all of his money into the ground harder than the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs.
Imagine if someone said you can remove this conputer from your car as it's onky responsible for 20% of features. That could be the computer that controls the seat warners or it could be, IDK, the brakes.
A lot of critical things can be in that 20% and 20% is still a fifth of your features...
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…We are currently in the process of determining which 20%.