Musk is using the “move fast, break things”philosophy. They cut everything and see which cuts generate pushback and reinstate some of those. Maybe it works in tech, but it’s psychopathic when you’re cutting health and safety
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It doesn't work in tech. It may have been cool for like a few years, say 2010-2012, but actual tech managers, basically everyone below C-suite and often C-suite, know that was only possible for a short time at the very beginning of a start up.
Yeah theres a reason Facebook changed it from "move fast and break things" to "move fast with a stable infrastructure". The bigger you get, the higher the stakes of breaking things is. And the US Federal government is about as big as it gets.
It was always bad. Before he trashed Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX were rife with abuse and discrimination. Both have achieved the level of success they have despite Musk, and they definitely show the cracks that he causes. The Boring Company, Neuralink, and xAI, no reason to think they are different.
In the design world, it is fail early and *small*. Like, you make a prototype quickly, test it, identify the weak spots, and do it again. It is a sandbox environment, not interacting with the fully deployed program.
You don't go careening through your fully functional program making changes willy nilly just to see what happens and oops, you crashed the entire system, oh well, just reload and start again. Customers don't stick around if you are crashing your platform left and right, even if it is the coolest.
Exactly this! There’s a huge difference between critical services and non-critical services. “X” can move fast and break things even as a mature product because people don’t depend on social media.
And what happened with Musk broke things in Twitter. All the people who brought value to the platform left. It is limping along but it has totally lost it place as the venue where the discussion was being had and a ton of its market value.
Oh sure, even non-critical services don’t benefit from the mentality at scale. There’s a reason Facebook doesn’t say “move fast and break things” anymore. I just meant to point out how it’s even more preposterous for the types of systems Musk is breaking.
That's absolutely what this: a hostile take over corporate raider style of the federal government. They are dismantling its ability to protect itself, and will scavenge what they can of value, sell off or discard the rest. They aren't being covert or subtle about it.
The problem is that they - Elon, Trump, and the billionaires along for the ride - vastly discount how much their wealth and power is dependent on a functional US government, even if thoroughly captured by interests. Knocking the US out of the game when it comes to biotech, geopolitics, etc. makes...
People do depend on government systems and services, banking, etc. Can’t just “teehee sorry you couldn’t access your money I was moving fast and breaking things lol”.
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I can't wait for Tesla to go bankrupt. It's been a long time coming.
Also: Elon was never a good leader. It wasn't bad in smaller doses, but at this level it's more than obvious.
Hence why I say you have to be a zero empathy psychopath to disregard the massive risk to lives
Going straight to prod means oops! no people who know how to keep our nukes safe! Oops- Ebola! Oops- planes crashing and/or flipping over!
He’s just evil and has zero empathy.