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The best engineers in the world working at SpaceX and Tesla disagree.

Here's Andrej Karpathy's (ex-Tesla, even better) take from a couple days ago on Lex's podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxladysbTE

Honestly, when you’re paying employees $300k packages, arguments that can be made for an Amazon warehouse worker just doesn’t apply here.

I kind of want to apply to Twitter tbh. Sounds like a fun place to work, probably eliminating 90% of the bureaucracy and HR bullshit. Stock alone would be worth it, working with brilliant and motivated people in a high pace environment is becoming rare. Silicon Valley used to do this and it was awesome in the 80’s up until 2000’s.

> working with brilliant and motivated people

Are you expecting that Musk demanding people work 100% overtime will make them "highly motivated"?

What stock?

Acquisition Musk is clearly different than Tesla (I have friends that work at both, day to day experience is nothing alike), maybe Twitter gets to what Karpathy describes, but I'm not convinced his big hammer approach to turning it back into a startup instantly is going to work.

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