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It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press

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The rich seem to practice reality defiance. They have to practice making up absolute nonsense all the time & pretending like it's real. It's like the secret blood ritual magic that keeps them going. This is a horrible game of Mage: The Ascension gone wrong.

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision” was an IBM maxim in early days, and how do you know whether the computer is doing what you asked it to if all it spits out is zeros and ones?

Someone will absolutely try to make AI do this and ChatGPT will just create a different assembly language that encodes the same as the original for whatever core they targeted and people will say it's a brilliant solution

I feel compelled to quote my own thread. Again.

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Developing a flight termination system as one of the last concerns. The chief engineer compares it to a light bulb. The flight safety engineer is losing hair over the exacting nature of the requirements. The chief refuses to treat people working on his dream as people...

not just the press, also inexperienced engineers who were impressed by his companies. those companies are impressive but elon wasn't doing the engineering.

I swear I heard someone on a pro-crypto podcast recently say (paraphrased but very much in the spirit of) that Silicon Valley Bank would have been fine if not for the pesky bank run by those nervous depositors. People have their views & changing them is hard - & oddly harder if they're wrong.

cybertruck is the definitive proof of this. If you read Isaacson Elon bio it was really the first car where Elon repeatedly overruled his team on all aspects of design, technology etc. We all know how that ended - with SpaceX buying 150m of one of the worst cars in history to get them off Tesla book

Except worse, because LLM-written software can't really hide its shittiness from you if you actually read it. If you can't tell what the LLM has written, you have no ability to debug, maintain, or fix your software. Bad news for everybody... except the people who get to set the price on LLMs

What tipped me over was when he asked to see code from people who worked for him. See how much they actually did. Print it out. Show it to him. That's like asking an author to write a list of words they know. It's meaningless.

I have something that creates the binary directly. Although I call it the compiler, not AI. (Technically it’s the linker that creates the final binary)

As someone in the CSCE field, I’ve heard the saying, “someone who truly knows Tech keeps a shotgun next to their printer incase it makes a funny noise.” Basically never trust tech or something to that point.

I have a hard time imagining that happening. As I use AI to help me learn how to use new database technologies that are not yet automatable using AI tools, I am struck by how AI is unable to keep up with the state of the art in technology, especially with respect to quickly evolving products.

If AI is unable to give me accurate advice on how to implement features using the latest database tools, I do not understand how it could implement those features if it could automate the actual writing of code. Specifically, I've been working on a reporting project in Microsoft Fabric lately.

That accuracy gap is exactly why we built the hallucination detector prover at Vinkius. It forces agents to cite verifiable sources and declare knowledge boundaries, which helps when you're working with specific tech like Microsoft Fabric. https://vinkius.com/mcp/hallucination-detector-prover

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AI doesn't write code, it scrapes code that humans have written, and presents it as its own. New code wont be "written" because Its nothing more than an easy way to plagerize other peoples work. Most who use AI have no talent or inspiration, just lazy people who steal other people's ideas and work.

one of the weirdest Silicon Valley experiences I had was that I heard him speak at the behest of two of my housemates, who worked for him they were both dazzled he finished and I said, "he didn't say anything real"

may have played into it, even. They fell for the hype before they really knew him, then decided they were too clever to fall for a scheister so no matter the evidence, he must be extremely bright and very cool

I felt about him the way I felt about Trump when a lot of ppl were still energized by his campaign. People who didn't like him would shrug and say, "he's charismatic" What about him/them is impressive or appealing? I've never understood what captures people's excitement

Even when there was nothing overtly objectionable in their speeches, they both just seemed like ordinary schlubs. Elon has an accent that may read as educated to Americans, but he was so clearly a hype man, not a clever man. I suppose a lot of people must get some pleasure out of being fooled

*ahem* Just here to point out that he does NOT have an engineering degree. He supposedly has a BA (not BS) in physics and BS in economics, and even the validity of those credentials are questionable.

If u know a single thing about anything he talks about (engineering, gaming, coding, cars, etc.), you'll immediately realize he's a huckster dumbass who's praised by complete morons and sociopaths. Put simply, he's the monorail guy from The Simpsons, lol.

This was the guy who told every Twitter programmer to *print out their code and show management the pile* when he bought the company. As an assessment of their value to the company. The fact he doesn’t know how coding works is well established

Elon’s creates gamble was investing heavily into his own PR in the early 2010s. Like, this guy legit became a trillionaire because he got Lisa Simpson and Iron Man to say that he’s a super genius that’s saving the world.

if you're a billionaire it doesn't matter what kind of creep, loser or fool you are, you can have a pr wing working full time and getting positive stories and mentions of you in media. journalists will do half the work for you themselves. i expect all or almost all of them do this

The best part about living in the social media age is that a lot of billionaires can’t help but make fools of themselves online, so we have an unprecedented means of dispelling their own myth making.

Paraphrasing something I read a while back: Elon: [rattles off on a topic outside our expertise] Us: Huh, interesting. Elon: [rattles off on a topic within our expertise] Us: Oh, no. Fuck no. That's not even wrong. Wrong is "2+2 = 5". This is "2+2=banana". Kill it with fire.

Hearing a lot lately about him thinking we’re in a simulation and I kind of think you wouldn’t want someone operating under that assumption to be a lynchpin for your economy, in charge of tons of telecommunications infrastructure, etc.

I actually can't get over how if you like, point out the space cooling problem, you get people still running to try and justify what he said...and it always fails because they have to pretend that something being technically *possible* means it's a good idea.

Elon Musk’s super power is a complete and total lack of shame combined with an earth sized ego. If you simply can’t conceive of anyone being as awesome as you, are uninhibited by failure, have gobs of capital to start off with and are extraordinarily lucky, you, too, can become a trillionaire.

Sometimes I think about the timing of the Avenger MCU movies in the 2010s, and Musk’s surge in notoriety, and conclude that far too many journalists and the general public desperately wanted too much of that fantasy to come true. The 2010s are going to be studied sociologically for decades.

If anyone took the effort to parse what he says they would know just how mind-numbingly stupid, feckless and awkward he is. He is utterly useless

I had mixed feelings about Elon before the twitter buyout, but I had the impression that he more or less knew what he was doing. I joined a Twitter space where he was talking to a bunch of techies and it only took about 2 sentences out of him for me to realize that he was completely full of shit.

The degree to which his fans think he can do no wrong is crazy. Someone posted an interview with the SpaceX CEO on r/space and anyone that critiqued a part of his space DC plan got dogpiled by his stans. No substantive response, it was all vibes. www.reddit.com/r/space/s/Nf...

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Not that the myth is difficult to challenge.. His general cluelessness became widely known in the software world when he took over twitter. It's a well documented story, much of it as tweets by former or exiting employees w/ remarks like "OMG what a fool, in an area he claims expertise, no less."