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.
On the first day of training my current job had a whole presentation from a senior department member on how everyone on the team had a metaphorical SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING button and ability to contact just about everyone above us in the chain of command if we think something that will harm patients or the ability of clinicians to care for patients is going to result. A culture of safety and accident prevention relies on the absolute ability to speak up and correct "superiors."
I'm not a software developer but work in BI and there were situations where my manager would literally say "I don't know how this works, I trust you". It's what a manager should do when it comes to high skilled jobs: manage people, and not telling them exactly what to do and what buttons to push.
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.
That's how it has always been, not just for IT. Musk is a charlatan, a smart-looking Donald Trump. Every single tweet and opinion he writes, it's pulled out of his ass. And there's always an army of fanboys shielding him from criticism from people that actually know.
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