they use git, but elon is not in fact a smart man

They use git.

So given you didn’t read it - the engineers were told to print out their last 30 days of changes so that musk could read it. Then they were told to shred it a few hours later.

This had nothing to do with VCS (which they obviously use), and everything to do with musk’s ego.

There are a really surprising number of rich people who spend a large chunk of their lives getting mad on Twitter.

I have no difficulty believing that he wants to waste a bunch of time leafing through random snippets of code for some bizarre reason.

I think he would leaf through digital source files but Elon doesn’t seem like the giant stacks of paper kind of person.

Yea, sounds like BS to me. Imagine Elon reading code printed on hundreds of thousands of real paper from thousands of developers.

Makes no sense.

The way I view it is that it's more or less a way to harass people. Get them to print out code and then if you do follow-up, you can weed out people that rebuke your authority.

He was never going to read the code (or even really understand it), it's just pettiness from a petty person.

Yeah, the people who respect themselves would walk out, and you're left with the subservient peons. Win-win! /s

Yeah, weird power play seems pretty plausible.

yup