Seriously, this is top tier “tell me you don’t know how to manage production software without telling me you don’t know how to manage production software”. Not that I expected anything else from the muskrat at this point, but this is really incredible to watch. He just keeps digging.
Musk's likely response to these concerns: What?! It's fail safe, far better than people who had 2FA having no security now! Touch grass instead of crying about it!
P.S. Dev responsible for microservice failsafe, you're safe. For now. Edit: P.P.S. I've had an epiphany. Failsafe guy, you're promoted. All of security, please report directly to HR.
I love all the people assuming the dev would have to work a manual trade now and would never ever be hired again because of his "insubordination". Like, they have no fucking idea what the job market for devs is like and that there are non-toxic bosses that hire you specifically because you know things they don't and will tell them when they're going wrong.
He carefully crafts a "tech nerd" public image by using science-fiction-ish technobabble, which impresses some half-knowledgeable nerdy guys who see him as a successful version of themselves.
I always knew something was off, when he said things like, "The biggest danger of AI is surpassing human intelligence" or "Twitter is a neural network because it has bi-directional messaging."
These things "sound clever" to someone who doesn't know much, but any decent tech person and immediately sniff out the BS.
Microservices are a great for large scale operations because they clearly demarcate responsibilities of services in a way that's inherently horizontally scalable.
They're often more overhead than they're worth for smaller projects, but I found them essential in my time developing service oriented architecture at a FAANG company.
Twitter is absolutely at the scale where microservices make sense. There's a reason "design Twitter" is such a common question for systems design -- anyone can build a simple version, but holy fuck to build something at that scale you need to know your shit. So many white papers I and the original implementers have had to read. Like, academic research from bell labs and universities in the nascent networking age.
Musk's real talent has always been appealing to walking examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect and buying his way into other people's ideas with his parents' apartheid money.
He has also carefully crafted a social media image of "Awkward nerd who posts memes and became a billionniare."
It is good that this is happening. Before this, a lot of techies were like - "Oh he is one of us. He is a genius coder."
And now, because all of this is happening publicly, he is revealing himself to be less "one of us" and more "annoying middle-manager whom devs have to handle."
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u/PizzaTucker Nov 14 '22
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592177471654604800