Elon email to staff: affirm “hardcore” culture, or quit with 3 months severance

You know what a stable website with thousands of nuanced sustainable infrastructure and shit loads of prod data needs. To fire all of the regular 9 to 5ers with a deep understanding and replace them all with yes men who will burn out in 12 months.

This could be vaguely more tolerable if there were some good ideas or a good plan to get behind.

Innovation seems highly unlikely. The leveraged buyout has saddled the company with enormous enormous debt. It seems unlikely the product will get better or improve. Musk has already numerous times had "throwing seats out of the airplane" movements- declaring a hunt for $1B in infra savings, shutting down microservices, firing huge numbers of the experts. What about this ride would inspire people to believe, to think they are playing an important part in something good emerging? What's the carrot here, Elon?

Elon's error here is that while Tesla and SpaceX are 'hardcore' type companies that are changing the world and therefore attract hardcore candidates Twitter is not a hardcore company. It's more like a government department. The temperament of suitable prospective employees will therefore also be different. Twitter is not changing the world with cutting edge technology.

Elon has a very expensive lesson in his future.

Why am I not hearing about unionizing? I'm as capitalist as they come but the idea of signing a ridiculous pledge to give all your time to help a billionaire become richer seems insane on its face! Who is signing up for this kind of treatment? Has the brainwashing if tech bros gone all the way over the edge?

I have a sense that Musk will be a hero in the business world if Twitter is reborn like a nirvana, and an idiot if Twitter tanks.

About time!

The era of inflated salaries in tech jobs and unjustified promotion is coming to an end

This led to a drastic downgrade everywhere in the west, wich helped foreign actors emerge, not grow, but occupy a voided place

Bloat-driven engineers, promoted to do more bloat

And executives and managers never held responsible for their poor performance

This reminds me of how dotnet "engineers" wanted to solve the "single-file" deployment issue for C# applications

Many advocated for static compilation, like Go, but "management" said they were trolls and instead went with "Zip/Unzip the runtime, at runtime".. wich, you probably guessed, was killed few years later

Is that what you expect from a trillion dollar company?

    Twitter/Vine <-> TikTok

    dotnet <-> Go

That's what i mean by: "This led to a drastic downgrade everywhere in the west, wich helped foreign actors emerge, not grow, but occupy a voided place"

Thankfully, a few dedicated engineers at Microsoft pushed for NativeAOT, and they delivered, better, approved by their rival: https://twitter.com/plantpowerjames/status/15927984862607564...

Speaking of Twitter, i think it'll never manage to compete with YouTube/TikTok, but it'll for sure be a great testbed for propaganda or experiment with the digital ID and digital payment with digital currencies

Exciting times