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submitted 10 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 426 points 10 months ago

Elon Musk loves to speak confidently about shit he knows nothing about. This leads to him being a confident speaker on every topic... I just wish we could figure out a way to shut him up.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 558 points 10 months ago

Obligatory

[-] hemmes@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Maybe I'm out of the loop - what's he been saying about software?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 72 points 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.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 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...

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 3 points 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