<p><pre><code> Musk: "I think we won't get to the refactor if we don't make these changes"
"why?"
Musk: "because we're going to be bankrupt"
"what's the runway?"
Musk: *silence*
"Elon you're you're our philosopher um you know Plato would be very proud of you. You're extremely technically competent and I think really understand how to how to drive things in a in a good direction. You know I I really love how you're also leaning into the voice of the people and letting you know them have a say as well *but*..."
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That last bit there is exactly the kind of kindergarten that had to be erected around Musk at SpaceX, described here in [1] as "Managing Elon was part of the company culture", which gives credence to that piece.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/z2ofwk/i_was_an_intern_at_spacex_years_ago_back_it_when/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughMuskSpam/comments/z2ofwk/i_wa...</a>
"Musk, who also likened Twitter to a plane crash..." Musk is the pilot of that $44 billion plane. This is the same company that he convinced himself and a bunch of investors was worth all that money. He should have figured out what a disaster it was before signing that contract. This is what happens when you make investment decisions while on the can and poop tweet about them.
Aka "the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make": <a href="https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/" rel="nofollow">https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...</a>
Jesus, Musk sounded absolutely clueless there. "Please explain the stack at a high level" isn't normally a gotcha question for an engineering leader who is talking about needing to totally rewrite a major software product.
To be fair the way Brown <i>tried</i> to call out Musk, was horrible and a direct attack. You don't talk to anybody like that, no friend, partner, intern or whoever unless you want to provoke them into a reaction. (Referring to his questions about the stack, ending in "buddy") It's really low and Musk was 100% right identifying that as acting like a jackass. Should he have taken it more calmly? Probably. But there is really no point in even talking to bullies like Brown.<p>Apparently there had been an architecture diagram by Holz that people are aware of and I can only imagine it to be a mammoth.<p>The laughing heard when Musk mentioned the diagram came from Holz's direction mostly I think at a) the aggressive provocative tone of Brown and b) his hilarious "questions" directly trying to put Musk on the spot about this mammoth tech stack. Everybody knows that just naming things in this 1000+ items diagram won't help anybody but Brown's ego.
Lol. Wasn’t built here huh? Has he ever worked with legacy software ever before? It’s possible he has not. Wild.<p>Do it! And GPL the stack you leave for dead please, Elon.