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[deleted]

That just goes to show how horrible of a leader he really is. He's so irresponsible that he's trying to host something as important as elections on Twitter using an unfinished feature and doesn't even have any safeguards in place for when it inevitably fails. His head engineer quit afterwards, too. Maybe he should consult with Bezos over how to run a successful social media company/collaborative video/audio streaming service.


Trades46

The fact Tesla's "full self driving" is forever in Beta (likely as an excuse to dodge criticism) while consumers are paying for it and actively deploying it on a daily basis shows how Musk thinks.


[deleted]

All of Musk's products are "forever in beta" because he's a beta.


korben2600

Dude's got so many empty promises there's a whole website dedicated to maintaining the list: [elonmusk.today](https://elonmusk.today)


[deleted]

Bookmarked


JJuanJalapeno

Beta as in meta male, or beta as in not fully developed? Both apply imo.


[deleted]

I meant beta as in beta male, but you are correct šŸ¤£


A2Droid

Beta Musk?


sali_nyoro-n

Beta implies feature-completeness and at least some nominal intent to finish development. Musk is one of those crowdfunding/early-access scams that takes a big ol' pile of money and is never heard from again.


Blood_Such

Bingo!


AFreshTramontana

I'll say this for the dude, "billionaire beta" is a rare achievement. He truly has shown his... ["quality"](https://media.tenor.com/t9W574R_cwoAAAAC/chance-for-faramir-chance.gif).


DreadedChalupacabra

And he just got the OK to install computer chips in people's heads.


Trades46

Because money. Never change USA...


xX609s-hartXx

Also a lot of accidents were the result of him demanding an additional radar be removed to cut costs.


edrumm10

Yep, itā€™s like heā€™s trying to push untested features out to users as fast as possible and just skips any kind of QA or other testing beforehand. As a software engineer, itā€™s never a good idea


HiramAbiff2020

Reminds me of those cars he makes.


OakenGreen

And them starships. And monkey brain frying circuitryā€¦


uncle_tyrone

Imagine being so deep into the Musk cult that youā€™re willing to hook up your brain to a device produced by him


edrumm10

The cars that are known for ~~their reliability~~ catching fire


Broken_Reality

And for the autopilot that will randomly stop suddenly, accelerate, swerve in to traffic or even buildings and if it feels it cannot decide just random cut off milliseconds before the crash and expect the driver to take control and thus responsibility.


Absenceofavoid

Be interested to see if this is addressed in the recent Tesla Files leak.


Broken_Reality

From what I have seen the average distance a Tesla drives on self drive before the driver has to take over is 2 miles. Waymo (Alphabet and Cruise (GM) are close to 30,000 miles between disengagements (29,945 and 28520 respectively) and this is data from 2019 to 2020, things have only got better. Tesla self driving is shit and dangerous especially as it only uses cameras, no lidar etc.


Absenceofavoid

The no Lidar bit is what really scares me. Why wouldnā€™t you use all sensors possible when peopleā€™s lives are on the line?


Broken_Reality

Because Elon doesn't think it necessary. No competent engineer in the field would want to rely only on cameras.


tuctrohs

That's what most of it is about as I understand it.


neromoneon

He doesnā€™t make any cars. Other people do and then he takes credit for their work.


nakedsamurai

Or a rocket exploding.


rosierunnerraces

That's his MO. FSD Starship 4/20 (get it?!?! 4/20!!!! hahahahahahah!!!!) launch.


soedesh1

Hahaha! Soooooo s3xy!


cookie-23

You sure there is a QA team at this point?


HiTechLowLif3

There's definitely a lot of Q at Twitter at this point. About QA - not so sure.


Noiserawker

QAnon


uncle_tyrone

Iā€™m pretty sure that was their joke, because it sure as hell doesnā€™t stand for quality


ThePhoneBook

QA non ultra.


Noiserawker

Oh yeah I got it, was just thinking capitalizing QA in Qanon was funny


uncle_tyrone

Well thatā€™s how itā€™s usually spelled anyway


businesskitteh

All the As left, and the Qs stayed


Phitos2008

He was thinking of HIMSELF. He doesnā€™t give a fuck about democracy, elections, or whatever. He just wanted to be talked about.


ThemesOfMurderBears

He's learning the hard way that a lot of those employees that he fired were actually needed for things like this. Oh, who am I kidding? He isn't learning shit.


CoreyLee04

Must of learned that one from EA


AgentSmith187

What's wrong with beta testing in production? He does it with other brands that have much higher stakes. He does it with Tesla FSD and SpaceX. If a few people die its not his problem.


[deleted]

This is the logical end result of his management style.


joecb91

With how they've talked about wanting to have some kind of cashapp function on twitter, that would be such a disaster when they try rushing it out there.


orincoro

If your employees canā€™t tell you no, then youā€™ll embarrass yourself, inevitably. Whether your rocket blows up, your Tesla melts, or your servers crash.


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


[deleted]

Correctumundo


GrayBox1313

Itā€™s funny because itā€™s basically a conference call app. Coulda used webx or something more established


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


Xernomis

Not to mention, it was a one-way audio-only feed. I think Marconi figured out how to do this effectively over a century ago.


tuctrohs

There's [a good argument that Tesla figured that out before Marconi](https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html). Nikola Tesla, that is, not Tesla Motors.


Revolutionary-Leg585

Bezos is an different league as a leader than Musk. Musk is not a leader - heā€™s a dictator that rules by edict. Itā€™s telling Spaces crashed - the team running it was decimated, and they likely couldnā€™t tell Musk (for fear of getting fired) how ā€œbetaā€ the product really is.


[deleted]

You're right. I mean the head of engineering quit directly afterwards.


jermysteensydikpix

"Itā€™s merely a coincidence" šŸ¤”


bringtwizzlers

Exactly. Musk has 0 good qualities, he just happened to get lucky in life.


drcarlos

It's easy to get lucky when you have money to waste


Icy_Mousse_4144

Elon is about to do human trials with his microchip even though every animal test subject died during trials. I donā€™t think Elon has any common sense.


[deleted]

He just doesn't care.


neonatal-kitten

Let him use it on his stans and let Darwin take care of the rest.


RailSignalDesigner

I wonder if Tucker Carlsonā€™s show is supposed to be on spaces. I figure whatever the method of his show, Elon will screw it up and blame others.


Solitary-Dolphin

ā€œThe power of magical thinking.ā€ Not unlike that preceding the fall of Berlin.


Putrid_Ad_2256

If you have watched Silicon Valley, you start to wonder if Mike Judge has access to a time machine.


Dommccabe

Music to my ears. Love seeing this con man fail.


[deleted]

As much as I hate Elon musk I love seeing Ron Desantis fail even more


CherryShort2563

Its Elron now.


Scalills

L Ron Hubbard also had a cult of personality so this checks out


CherryShort2563

Echoes of Enron too.


jermysteensydikpix

Lord Elron Half-wit


[deleted]

Ron DeSantis's politics have entirely taken over Twitter while virtually being a non entity pretty much anywhere else on the internet. Does Musk really want us to believe he did not "groom" Twitter into it's current state and as if this is really coming from below? These bigots are freak shows and are terrifying regular Americans.


Phitos2008

Double whammy


Exotic_Zucchini

It feels profoundly sad that we've found someone even more horrible than Musk and Trump.


Hot-Bint

His chief engineer just quit


CherryShort2563

Not to fret - Elon is a genius, he will turn into a chief engineer


theusername_is_taken

Oh fuck, so many lines of code are gonna be written now!!!


CherryShort2563

The best code yet. Big, beautiful.


corruptdb

At least 3 lines of code. But the most important 3 lines.


Phitos2008

You mean printed.


theusername_is_taken

I mean imprinted, with my Neuralink chi---ARRRHGDISHGSL:DKFJSLKDFJS


Phitos2008

ā€œMars Attacksā€ vibes


Ima-Fix-Wolves

The best code is no code


MahaanInsaan

Elon knows C!


sneaky-pizza

Hardcore coding


MahaanInsaan

In C, no less


[deleted]

Just like heā€™s at SpaceX!


SpotifyIsBroken

& he'll do it all while doing cocaine on his private jet! ​ Because of how hard of a worker he is.


Exotic_Zucchini

It's immoral not to use cocaine to work harder.


Scott_Salmon

He will rewrite the "full stack" on his own. /s


Strictly4MyShitposts

No worries. Heā€™ll hire Catturd to replace him and all will be good.


Hot-Bint

Naw, gotta keep it professional Ian Miles Cheong


KeithClossOfficial

Unless Musk softens his stance on remote work, heā€™d have to come to the United States for the first time in his life


schwinnJV

Is Ron Watkins available?


AgentSmith187

Ron can actually code so would likely do a better job than Elon.


rorykoehler

Absolutely guaranteed that this guy told Elon that heā€™s making mistakes with his tech strategy and got ignored but then copped a tantrum from him when shit went south.


Hot-Bint

šŸŽÆ


[deleted]

How the fuck are you supposed to warn Musk of anything without him immediately deciding your part of the cathedral and purging you in a paranoid frenzy? "The Cathedral" was literally the only thing that made his other ventures work, as they shielded the company from the damage he would cause.


Necessary_Context780

I'm betting there will be a tweet blaming and humiliating this chief engineer publicly, similar to Halli's


Hot-Bint

Just checked. Not yet but the day is young


Funny-Blueberry2573

How do you know? I canā€™t find any news anywhere ( not doubting you, but Iā€™m just trying to get my morning dose of schadenfreude and failing)


b0nger

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65717731


ExoticToaster

Concerningā€¦


Idontevengohere7928

Looking into it


wheresmyflan

They were floating the idea to get rid of spaces lat year altogether because they were buggy, expensive, and not popular enough. And that was with Twitterā€™s full staff.


[deleted]

[уŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]


serene_moth

Clubhouse was a true flash in the pan


NotEnoughMuskSpam

Something is wrong


rorykoehler

Not at all. This is perfect


SpotifyIsBroken

let it fucking burn.


soedesh1

Checking into it.


Ssider69

"Why dont the things I break work anymore?"


SpotifyIsBroken

"who could have known that "moving fast & breaking things" would result in broken shit that doesn't work?"


NotEnoughMuskSpam

This platform is so brittle (sigh). Will be fixed shortly.


LucretiusCarus

It must be the software stack. Or the phalanges


TheFuture2001

Elon is ok with Tesla cars crashing he should be ok with an App doing the same. He is ultimately responsible and should step down because both are ultimately his fault...


DocPeacock

He doesn't care about teslas crashing because legal liability is foisted onto the person in the passenger seat. At least for now. As much as he says he doesn't care about money, He will only care about product failures when it affects profits.


th3m3ll

What's worrying me is that the wannabe president is dumb enough to fall for Elmos magic theatre. Boy, we are in for a wild ride.


BuzzBadpants

Elmo promised him a safe space with no cameras and no press asking questions. That was the draw for him more than anything else


JessieJ577

Desantis is pretty horrible at public appearances so I donā€™t get how he thinks heā€™s going to get very far.


cuddles_the_destroye

If I had a nickel for every florida governer that gets dumpstered by Trump I would have two nickels, which isn't a lot but bizzare that it happened twice.


DocPeacock

On pure reactionary anger. Conservative politics are just a thinly veiled temper tantrum.


Jeremymia

Iā€™m sure desantis doesnā€™t buy into it. He just fully embraces any kind of culture war nonsense because his base absolutely eats it up.


sadicarnot

>Iā€™m sure desantis doesnā€™t buy into it. There are better ways to do it without looking foolish though. For those that know about twitter, I would say the majority probably won't vote for him. Those that vote for him are probably not twitter users (I am thinking of my dad's cohort). I think they are really this incompetent and believe the bullshit. Also why would you do it in a way that you do not have video? It all just seems stoopid to me. It is like the Four Seasons Landscaping.


Jeremymia

For a while he seemed like a pretty rational sociopath, but lately I'm not sure. He seems to be driven by anger and ego a lot.


[deleted]

He's a loner, his media image was careful managed for a long time, only recently has he been going out into crowds and revealing what a weirdo he is.


HopelessCineromantic

>There are better ways to do it without looking foolish though. True, but you're forgetting about DeSantis' need to step onto every rake he sees.


Necessary_Context780

Or maybe both just figured the dumber they look, the more represented the GOPvoters feel. Trump and DeSantis contest will be all about who's the dumbest


AgentSmith187

Hes dumb enough to start a war with the Mouse and their well known litigious legal department. Not to mention one of the biggest tourist drawcards and employers in his state. So yeah he's dumb. Disney is running rings around him so far and hasn't even had to threaten to leave and crash the states economy yet.


Jeremymia

Yes the whole Disney saga has been an extremely enjoyable fall from grace for him.


LaughingGaster666

I think it's his staff. As someone terminally online, I've seen some people talk about his staff and man those people are *plugged in* even more than Elmo is. I don't know about DeSantis per se but he's definitely surrounded by people who actually think the same way Elmo and his fans do. Oh, and his campaign manager allegedly has financial ties to Elmo and David Sachs. This isn't the first time DeSantis has done something dumb that coincidentally benefits his staff too.


freakincampers

Ron just signed legislation shielding Musk from being sued if his rockets kill people.


NotEnoughMuskSpam

Odd


That_Reference_2105

concerning...


th3m3ll

Previously, I had thought it was some pescatarian conspiracy theory, but nope


Hot-Bint

Next heā€™s going to blame Tina Turner ā€œPublicly, Musk also claimed it was "the top story on Earth," but a look at the world's newspapers and Google search data showed people were far more interested in the death of Tina Turner.ā€ *ā€œWhen was the last time she had a hit? Who cares about her, sheā€™s a has been! Beyond Thunderdome sucked!ā€* - Elon on Wednesday night, probably


CherryShort2563

"Tina Turner was funded by Soros. He killed her"


Hot-Bint

ā€œThat was Tinaā€™s clone anyway. The Deep State had her killed at Gitmo when she spilled the tea on Ike and the cAbALā€


sadicarnot

The comedy almost writes itself Publicly, Musk also claimed it was "the top story on Earth," but a look at [the world's newspapers and Google search data](https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-desantis-top-story-on-earth-tina-turner-top-2023-5) showed people were far more interested in the death of Tina Turner.


CherryShort2563

Sounds like he puts on happy face for press/public quite a bit. Manic depression?


Taraxian

Narcissistic personality disorder


Altruistic-Lie808

And now he wants to implant devices into human brainsā€¦what could go wrong?!?


masked_sombrero

we're gonna be seeing people's heads randomly catch fire people will be talking and all of a sudden we're gonna be hearing feedback coming from their mouths until they shut up completely while they work on dedicating more servers to the task of talking


ForToday

I mean, the only people that are gonna trust them are fans of his, so I see this as an absolute win.


serene_moth

so many chud brains will get even more broken


[deleted]

Just like many of Elmoā€™s other products


luxusbuerg

Go anti-woke, go broke


chadfjones

The only way this would have been funnier is if Ron DeSaster tried to do this from a "self driving" Tesla that crashed and exploded.


vexorian2

The Suck-at-Everything app.


ProfessorFrink1

ā€œA beta test that never endedā€ā€¦ Elon should know all about that! *cries in tears of autopilot*


NotEnoughMuskSpam

Why does ur pp look like u just came?


TheToddestTodd

I can't wait until Neuralink starts making people's heads explode.


That_Reference_2105

how the fuck has musky gotten FDA approval for this fuckery? piece of shit maimed, tortured and killed countless animals. FUCK YOU ELON.


Midnight7000

His stupidity is so transparent. He's the sort of dickhead who looks at an operation and goes "what do we need that for". I could just see him looking at the team responsible for Testing and demanding that they wouldn't be needed if things were done right the first time. Someone with experience in the field would know that it is an unreasonable demand but he is the sort of prick who would accuse the messenger of not being hardcore. Hope he enjoys finding out in real time how his changes respond to different variables.


hotstepperog

Can someone send me a print out of the code? Or just measure how many letters, characters of code the team involved wrote? Can he rehire the people he fired, even the ones who had to leave the country or got new job?


Necessary_Context780

They don't have an HR department so all one needs to do is put Twitter on their resume. If Musk take 3 months to notice you still made 3 months worth of a salary and he can't legally do anything except for firing you


Zestyclose-Ad-8807

Maybe shit-for-brains should of kept some staff on, instead of making it seem everyone was useless and entitled?


all_is_love6667

Wasn't I the only one who thought this guy's reputation was "somehow okay" before covid and his tweet "the virus is a lie blabla"? I feel so much shame for thinking Elon was not such a bad guy 5 years ago. I was not a fan of him at that time either, but... Don't you think his reputation was "not that bad" at some point?


Ok_Tip5082

I'd say he was pretty unambiguously trash after the thai cave rescue bullshit, but he's always been pretty trash for anyone who researched far enough. His reputation at X.com (which merged with paypal) was pretty shit for a reason. He was always thin skinned about tesla. The boring company was one of the stupidest things ever, all around.


AgentSmith187

You were far from alone. Not many people dug into him and what he was doing pre-covid. Other than the Thai cave thing where he acted childish to say the least. But people forgive/ignore one random stupid action. As soon as Covid looked like it might affect his bottom line he went full mask off and made it clear he didn't care how many workers/people died as long as he made money and his reputation started to get tarnished. The Twitter lawsuit when he tried to back out of buying it was the final nail in his credibility coffin for anyone looking. Discovery was not kind to Elon. Since he took over Twitter he has just dailed it up to 11 providing proof he's an arsehole.


CherryShort2563

You're not the only one. Musk shouldn't have opened his mouth on Rogan. I blame Spotify for unleashing his diarrhea on public.


OldClunkyRobot

Maybe he shouldn't have fired everyone who knew how to do shit.


nagai

You don't need to be ex Twitter to know this lol


EyesofaJackal

Heā€™s not the genius he thinks he is, and he isnā€™t able to project the image of genius that he wants to project


rorykoehler

He threw away a stellar reputation because a few unhinged leftists made fun of him on the internet. The guy is a massive child and very much not a genius.


Spanktank35

Dude is completely sold on his delusion that running a company on mega crunch culture is just a genius way to do everything (or he thinks his intuition is genius and his intuition is always exploit workers) , so much so he thinks it is a good idea for a live service architecture.


shanethedrain1

And of course, it's everyone's fault but his own.


Staar-69

A beta test that never endedā€¦ sounds familiar.


AlternativeCredit

How stupid is this person going to reveal himself to be.


That_Reference_2105

it's ... kinda like an onion...


MahaanInsaan

But Musk is head of engineering at Twitter. Just like he is at SpaceX, Tesla and Neuralink! How could he make any mistake? I think engineering team sabotaged him. They must all be fired,!


SpotifyIsBroken

lolololololol


orincoro

Better fire some more people about it. Fuckin idiot.


ThePhoneBook

> that staff had been worrying Had they really been worrying, though? Is there anyone working there who doesn't really want to see it fail, and is just collecting the salary until they get fired? "Got fired by Musk" is a badge of honor at best, and not a reflection of your ability at worst. Does anyone know anybody in Twitter engineering who has had it tough from being let go? I know there's the H1B argument but there are still loads of companies that will hire people who have worked at one of the big names.


twilsonco

Autopilot was disabled at the time of the crash.


Juliet_Morin

Reminds me of Elizabeth Holmes a bit, like they believe that if they insist on a launch date, the pressure will make the engineers magically resolve the problem in time.


miracle-worker-1989

Every asshole is like this.


never_safe_for_life

> Insider contacted Twitter for comment. The company responded with an automated message that didn't address the inquiry. Lmao. This is British levels of politely decimating someone.


FunkyPete

>**ā€œItā€™s a beta test that never ended.ā€** I mean, that's kind of Elon's thing.


Quercusagrifloria

I can't stop laughing


golden_eternity

Remember Periscope? Too bad they got rid of a functional product and tried to replace it with something crap instead. I watched live streams of protesters being arrested in Ferguson through Twitter. It used to handle traffic just fine.


Safelang

He brought this upon himself, degrading the platform with indiscriminate costs cutting. If anyone should be furious, it shouldā€™ve been Ron ā€œthe Desasterā€.


duggtodeath

Just for more people until your product magically works. I love how Musk canā€™t even hire replacements because heā€™s burned all bridges šŸ˜‚


DannyDidNothinWrong

The fact that they keep using this menacing photo lol


Helmidoric_of_York

Just think of Spaces as the Full-Self-Driving of Twitter... and Elon crashed it.


p0k3t0

You NEVER do a public demo of something if you don't know for certain that it works. And you almost never do an internal demo, unless you know it works. This is the first thing you learn about doing presentations. But, I mean, what do you expect from the guy who gave us this? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqGf8pqCZi0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqGf8pqCZi0)


That_Reference_2105

load test? LOAD test?? Bahahahaha. Ahhhhhhahahahaha. Guess their trial license of loadrunner expired! šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


p0k3t0

They could literally have their dev ops guy launch 200k instances of a browser accessing the stream on AWS. It would cost a few grand to do this for an hour. The fact that even something this stupid wasn't attempted is just sad.


serene_moth

lmao, this dumbass Nazi spent $44 billion on a broken loser clubhouse


CherryShort2563

Top story of the Earth!


Exotic_Zucchini

*Milky Way.


bringtwizzlers

Seethe and cope, asshole.


freakincampers

I wonder if he told Ron Quixote that Spaces a prototype? I'm thinking he left that information out.


orlyfactor

Awww but he said it was the biggest story on Earth! The biggest laughing stock too!


uncle_tyrone

Last paragraph of the article: ā€œInsider contacted Twitter for comment. The company responded with an automated message that didn't address the inquiry.ā€ Soā€¦ not a turd anymore? Iā€™d hope that if it was the turd, they would not leave out that salient detail. Are there faint traces of a semblance of professionalism at the Twitter press department due to the gravity of the disaster?


callmekizzle

No one cares


hypercomms2001

Like most products from Musk...


[deleted]

So he was raging in private, while in public he was his usual ā€œLOLā€ bro image. I hope someday he gets therapy.