i think elon musk is generally doing a good job of running the companies he runs, and i think he will do a good job with twitter, as well. it's clear twitter was massively mismanaged and was slowly evaporating as a business due to sustained and terminal unprofitability.

@sneak when you talk to people actually working at elon companies its yikes land all over on engineering decisons. It might be a USA type thing although, where there is so much bad but one or two rare essentials make up for it.
Seriously concerned for their infra in 6 month from now with how many people they let go.

@surfingalot i'm sure some part of that is elon-specific and some part of that is that most startups that are aggressively trying to seek profitability have "yikes land" in a scary amount of areas.

@sneak the difference between a startup and twitter is twitter is a huge castle and startups are appropriately sized for their staffing level. Its worse to have to ‘maintain the castle’ with %70 less staff than it is to be a startup with an equal staffing level cutting corners. What elon is doing is also pretty bad even for startup management. He reminds me of a kid deleting random files in system32 because he doesnt even understand what they are for and borking his OS.

@surfingalot twitter.com still works fine, citation needed

@sneak this comes from personal experience in a similar situation. It will take a while for it to become more and more noticeable, like a car you stop doing maintenance for. You can start to see signs of it with more random stuff breaking already.

@surfingalot that assumes that he will not be hiring better replacements. given what we have seen with tesla (scale ramp, quality issues improving, semi, cybertruck), spacex (starship, starlink, space lasers), i do not think this assumption holds true. i imagine that the elon field generator is sufficient to attract the few dozens with clue that are required to maintain twitter at present. i also imagine that at least some of them are still around in the org.

@surfingalot one reason i want to be more rich is to be able to hire world class recruiters.