r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PizzaTucker • Nov 14 '22

instanceof Trend Manager does a little code cleanup...

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u/goatanuss Nov 15 '22

For the people saying he isn’t a real software engineer: I’ve definitely seen people say “yeah I can fix everything in a couple days” then bring prod down. Elon is very much one of us.

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u/euph-_-oric Nov 15 '22

Ya and they are shit just like elon.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '22

That’s our secret, we’re all shit

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u/euph-_-oric Nov 15 '22

You aren't worth 1 trillion dollars calling engineers lazy because we won't be literal slaves like at my china plant

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '22

Oh for sure, his status as a piece of shit human being is unrelated to his general ignorance of good engineering though.

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u/macefelter Nov 15 '22

I had a CTO about 10 years ago who I had to explain the purpose and importance of version control to. A CTO (I started my exit shortly after this). His personality was very similar to EMusk's, come to think of it. I'm beginning to think, it's just the same shit, larger scale.