>If you build a resilient architecture, keeping something like Twitter simply running wouldn’t take that many people.
It takes an army of engineers to build a resilient architecture at Twitter's scale.
And why are we even talking about "keeping the lights on"? Elon is claiming he's going to build a better video platform than YouTube, complete with better tools and for creators, for crying out loud.
He also said we’d have robo taxi’s by now. I’m not sure how much faith you can put into anything he says because so little of anything he has said has been true. Hell, if he told me I was fired, I probably wouldn’t believe him. Sadly, HR probably would.
i see your point but you should always put > 0 faith in Musk IMO. No robo taxi's but, even after being laughed out of the room quite literally, landing orbital class boosters is common place now. I don't doubt there's the talent at Twitter required to do amazing things and Musk seems to find ways to push and motivate talent to crazy levels of results. I'm not saying things like a more youtube than youtube is destiny but don't completely write it off.
I didn't say 0 faith, I just said I wasn't sure how much. :p
SpaceX is an interesting result, but it is starting to look more like a fluke than what we'd expect from him. Perhaps rocket scientists "get him" and understand the stakes better, after all, if you screw up a rocket you could die in the aftermath.
Tesla is certainly similar stakes -- except one mistake can kill every passenger on the road instead of your fellow employees. Twitter is basically 0-stakes, and is unlikely to take itself that seriously. If they screw up, maybe a bad government won't get overthrown somewhere, or trolls will take over the internet. But mostly, people will survive -- or rather, the outcomes are far more abstract.
He doesn't seem like a good fit for this kind of environment.
It takes an army of engineers to build a resilient architecture at Twitter's scale.
And why are we even talking about "keeping the lights on"? Elon is claiming he's going to build a better video platform than YouTube, complete with better tools and for creators, for crying out loud.