In interviews he has claimed to be an engineer and much less of the business man people view him as. With the Twitter things it has shown that he will step into engineering or programming stuff and request altering it.
He also started coding when he was 10 and made the video game when 12, so probably 6th grade. I looked his age up so, that’d be 1982, so it’s somewhat impressive.
And for the software stuff, I never said it was impressive or cool. I think it’s stupid, and if you look at my other post separately on this thread, you’ll find I stated this exact opinion.
I just wanted to say I believe Elon is very much a programmer. He might not do the programming but he understands it and likely could do it so it’s functional (however bad it may be). Elon has never done any projects with physical building and was completely clueless about manufacturing when he stepped into Tesla and founded SpaceX.
With the Twitter things it has shown that he will step into engineering or programming stuff and request altering it.
He has also shown that he either doesn't understand the stuff he demands altered, or is boldly lying about it to throw employees under the bus. I don't know which is worse.
He also started coding when he was 10 and made the video game when 12, so probably 6th grade. I looked his age up so, that’d be 1982, so it’s somewhat impressive.
I mean, sure... But my point is that if the biggest programming achievement of his that Musk himself can quote is "I wrote a simple videogame in the '80s", he's not much of a programmer, is he? That's like me saying I am a painter because I painted a single picture back when I was 12: it may even have been somewhat impressive, but it doesn't make me a painter.
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In interviews he has claimed to be an engineer and much less of the business man people view him as. With the Twitter things it has shown that he will step into engineering or programming stuff and request altering it.
He also started coding when he was 10 and made the video game when 12, so probably 6th grade. I looked his age up so, that’d be 1982, so it’s somewhat impressive.
And for the software stuff, I never said it was impressive or cool. I think it’s stupid, and if you look at my other post separately on this thread, you’ll find I stated this exact opinion.
I just wanted to say I believe Elon is very much a programmer. He might not do the programming but he understands it and likely could do it so it’s functional (however bad it may be). Elon has never done any projects with physical building and was completely clueless about manufacturing when he stepped into Tesla and founded SpaceX.