Elon Musk BLOWS UP At Engineer Who Calls Out His BS

"“Chief Twit” Elon Musk lost it when grilled about Twitter’s software engineering and coding on Tuesday night, calling the questioner a “jackass” for pressing for specific details.

During a Twitter Space hosted by renowned hacker George Hotz, who had resigned from Twitter earlier in the day, Musk said that Twitter would need to do a “total rewrite of the whole thing” if it wanted to have a “really high velocity,” prompting Netflix engineer Ian Brown to interrupt with some pointed questions. Brown had previously worked at Twitter for more than 8 years before leaving in Oct. 2021.

“Wait, seriously, a total rewrite? That’s your prediction for velocity?” Brown wondered.

“Yeah,” Musk quickly replied.

“Well, when you say a total rewrite, you mean starting with the skeleton?” Hotz interjected. “Or a bunch of engineers sit down with a whiteboard and say, ‘What is Twitter?’ Revolution or reform?”

Musk, after hemming and hawing for a few seconds, eventually said that “you either needed to amend the crazy stack that exists or rewrite it,” Brown jumped in again to ask the Tesla founder what he explicitly meant and whether he could “break it down.”

Following an awkward silence, Musk questioned whether Brown had “seen George’s diagram,” causing the Netflix employee to break out in laughter."

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221222__WL05ELonMuskGoesOffEngineerTwitterSpaceDiscussion

[sydhamelin]

Elon: "The stack is crazy."
Engineer: "Elaborate."
Elon: "Jackass...."

Elon Fanboys: "Elon was right, the stack IS crazy!"
Everyone Else: "Elaborate."
Elon Fanboys: "Jackass."

Elon, and Elon Fanboys, think that they are intelligent, by simply making assertions, then quickly deflecting about how dumb everyone is for not understanding that assertion. They are no different than flat earthers. They assert the earth is flat, and when you dig in, they just say you're brainwashed.

[Balance]

Why didn’t he call him a pedophile? That is his favorite word right

[stanleyklein]

Ask elon a difficult question and he stutters, stammers and spouts irrelevancies. Then, if pursued, he tries to deflect and, if that does not fool anyone, he gets personal and insults. What a child. Some "genius."

[FrappuccinoAlfredo]

I love watching as Elon's image slowly falls apart

[alli]

Narcissists will say things without even knowing the meaning of it, just to look smart. Elon probably heard a smart coder say those words and he thought he could spew them out and look smart, but he never gets challenged because narcissists won’t surround themselves with people who challenge them for the better and to grow, so when a person pushed back, there was nothing he could do but lash out. These personality types all follow the same base patterns.

[thematic]

Lol its not too hard, if you work in IT/coding/networking, you better be humble and be able to answer just the simple stuff. "youre a jackass" just aint gonna cut it.

[sumarianprince]

Elon should learn to code before talking to Engineers in this manner, he came out looking incompetent.

[Baldrick]

When Musk gets a challenging question and don't know what to say he starts to stutter. Always. It`s his signature that his fans misinterpret with him being genius.

[bootsfan]

conservatives say they are censored for 'just asking questions' even tho conservatives do that exact shit to people omg

[dinosaursneverexisted]

this must have been pretty traumatic for musk, billionaires live very cushy, insulated lives surrounded by brown-nosers and yes-men

[gorkskoal]

nothing musk said made any sense. High velocity? wtf is he on?

[JamJuice]

The amount of times Elon tumbled over his own words I just knew he never touched a programming language in his life.

[FrappuccinoAlfredo]

Wasn't Elon fired from one of his early companies because his code was shit

[makolp]

Elon Musk is an example that “faking it till you make it” eventually catches up to you….

[hukabuktx]

Questions are the number one enemy of musk's ego.

[CCFONESOL]

Elon has no idea what he wants, or how to do it.

[cyberoptic]

I am a coder. Any mature system grew evolutionarily with changes, and so any such system will most likely contain overly convoluted parts, antiquated parts, and duplication of live code in various subcomponents. In other words, old code that is functioning live in productions will look awful to a fresh set of eyes looking at all the code after all the corrections and changes were made. Can I get a confirmation from other coders?

[brodie]

Ok, so this guy says there are 2 possible reasons Elon couldn't say anything about the Twitter stack:
1. He doesn't like being challenged
2. He doesn't know
...
It seems pretty obvious to me that these 2 reasons are actually only 1 reason because if he had an answer, it wouldn't have been challenging would it?

[neilwiththedeal]

Elon is a bullshit artist and it was actually very intriguing to hear him try to do it in real time

[IHeartNoise]

Major "basic html/css coder at a full-stack dev job interview" vibes coming from this.