• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    One example that stuck with me is that he said some shit along the lines of 80% of Twitter’s microservices being superfluous and he’ll be shutting them off.

    Yes, the dev teams just spent 4/5 of their time building shit no one asked for. It just annoys me so much, because anyone with basic reasoning should be able to work out that this cannot possibly be the case, but it’s easy to give it the benefit of the doubt.

    Well, except that many, many Twitter outages followed.

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      10 months ago

      I’ve heard horror stories on the programming subreddits of incompetent managers that require their employees to write X new lines of code per week. Those code bases probably could have huge chunks taken off.

      Clearly that hasn’t happened here

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      10 months ago

      Well, except that many, many Twitter outages followed.

      Yeah. As a software dev, it was pretty awkward explaining this to colleagues who rely on Twitter/X.

      “It sounds like you think Twitter is a software company and that Elon is utterly unqualified to run a software company. That can’t possibly be true, right?”

      …Then we end up doing the “Concerned Padme” meme…