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0 pointsrzz33y ago0 comments

To be honest, growth. I work at a tech company of a similar size, and keeping the lights on, so to speak, from a systems perspective is something we can do with a few engineers. By far the bulk of employees at my company are in R&D, sales, business operations, infrastructure growth, etc. If you build a resilient architecture, keeping something like Twitter simply running wouldn’t take that many people.

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itsoktocry3y ago

>If you build a resilient architecture, keeping something like Twitter simply running wouldn’t take that many people.

It takes an army of engineers to build a resilient architecture at Twitter's scale.

And why are we even talking about "keeping the lights on"? Elon is claiming he's going to build a better video platform than YouTube, complete with better tools and for creators, for crying out loud.

withinboredom3y ago

He also said we’d have robo taxi’s by now. I’m not sure how much faith you can put into anything he says because so little of anything he has said has been true. Hell, if he told me I was fired, I probably wouldn’t believe him. Sadly, HR probably would.

chasd003y ago

i see your point but you should always put > 0 faith in Musk IMO. No robo taxi's but, even after being laughed out of the room quite literally, landing orbital class boosters is common place now. I don't doubt there's the talent at Twitter required to do amazing things and Musk seems to find ways to push and motivate talent to crazy levels of results. I'm not saying things like a more youtube than youtube is destiny but don't completely write it off.

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