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I don't know who you work for, but something tells me your boss didn't publicly fire a huge chunk of the engineering staff being like, "WTF are all these people good for? lol"

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That's the point. We have reliability engineers and QA, but I don't find that they actually prevent or resolve outages. I guess it's funny to poke fun at every outage after the mass layoffs, but in reality I doubt things would have been much better had that not happened.

Daily active users are at all time highs and Twitter before Elon was heading into bankruptcy. Tell us what your plan would have been

Remember Elon was strong-armed into the purchase; he tried to back out.

That aside, in his shoes I would have slashed non-essential roles, but been a bit less heavy-handed among the engineers. I do feel that Twitter's popularity is orthogonal to the cost-cutting.

there are still TONS of bots, despite what musk says

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