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Comment by mikewarot | Hacker News Reader

As Grady Booch pointed out, Elon is testing in production[1]. Even Elon doesn't know where all the filters are in the algorithms used.

The absence of a total collapse does not imply all is well.

[1] https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1620720537805922306

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This implies that he eschews your regimen about how important production is. It's really not a signal that Twitter, the multi-billion dollar company, is about to collapse.

He's a cowboy coder? That's totally unsurprising to me. He's seemingly made it work many times in a row.

I agree that we don't know if all is well, so let's quit saying it's not.

I think it's worth separating Twitter the product and its success from Twitter the corporation with financial obligations. The product side will be determined by so many factors outside of any one person's control it's fun to speculate on but that's about it. On the financial side, based on what's publicly known so far, it's not a great situation in terms of servicing the debt of Twitter. Elon can always pay for it out of pocket, of course, but that's not the normal approach anyone would take and as a result it's much more interesting to watch what happens there.

Did you know Twitter didn't have a staging environment when Musk bought it?

That's a bit hyperbolic. No single staging environment for the entire thing, but staggered rollouts behind feature flags and lots of microservices that can be individually checked. It's not 90s era "FTP it up and see what happens".

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