That conspiracy theory doesn't work - it fails to explain his current mismanagement and fumbling around which only endangers Twitter. Had the conspiracy any legs, his transition to ownership would be utterly boring.
Maybe it appears careless from the outside looking in but could there be a chance that these are his tactics to turn a large ship around in a short time?
(Not a fan of Musk, just playing devil's advocate because I enjoy exploring other perspectives)
In other news, peoples desire to virtue signal is as strong as ever.
George Hotz is going to be doing a 12 week internship at Twitter to optimize their code. And if you know anything about Hotz, he doesn't involve himself with any bullshit, and most certainly knows what he is doing software wise. Twitter is far from lost.
I’m not being a dick - I genuinely can’t tell if this is parody or not and so I find it quite exciting.
The idea of geohot pulling a 12-week “internship” to “optimise Twitter” to spite the hordes of “virtue signallers” is so hilariously self-referential and Pythonesque it’s fantastic.
Indeed, I hope it's really witty sarcasm, rather than seriously thinking that there's actually a single 10x engineer out there that will come in and optimize the shit out of Twitter.
They could write an entire Silicon Valley season out of this prompt.
Can you honestly believe that an organization can continue working with 3/4 of its stuff gone?
Hell, there are projects with a bus factor of one beneath all of our infrastructure (insert relevant xkcd here), and those are much simpler than such a monstrosity like twitter.
I don't know what his true motivations are (do you?), but maybe he's just curious what the codebase of Twitter looks like; or maybe Musk is promising a big paycheck if he manages to... to do what? I don't think Musk even knows what his goal is.
No, Hotz said in public while arguing with some other person on Twitter that he is willing to do 12 weeks at twitter for just cost of living in sf. Then Musk dropped in and said "you're on".
I wonder how all this, which looks like an ongoing chain of management missteps, is going to affect Musk's personal brand and, as a result, Tesla and SpaceX.
Easy, he went through a couple of billion future outcmes of this 4D chess game and settled for the only one in which he wins. I onow, he seems to think of himself more like Tony Stark than Dr. Strange, but still.
"I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices."
"Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33647882