There’s not much information about xAI, but diversity is already an issue

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    Elon does seem to be able to speak at least on some level about rocket design. His statements and very public beefs with his own engineers at Twitter however demonstrate a complete lack of understanding of coding for large scale infrastructure like Twitter.

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      He has a team of skilled coders. If you follow some of the complaints about twitter you find out the infrastructure is kinda fed up.

      Apparently programmers where getting incentives for how many libraries they created and how often they where used.

      This lead to reinventing basic things like load balancers and web servers from scratch vs very optimized open source solutions. Essentially reinventing the wheel instead of new features .

      George Hotz known for various coding and hacking projects was there and did an interview recently where he discuss how the code base was next to impossible to maintain in its current state at Twitter.

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      STEM Self-Importance Syndrome, where knowledge in one aspect of STEM leads someone to believe they have knowledge and understanding of EVERYTHING even though there’s actually a lot of big differences between Rocket Science and Computer Programming.

      Rocket scientists are pretty susceptible to this because “It’s not rocket science” is an actual phrase used to mean “this job is easy.” Computer science is not rocket science, but it’s not easy either and it’s not something a rocket scientist can just jump in and do.

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        See also Stockton Rush, who thought because he studied aerospace, he knew what he was doing going into the ocean.

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          Appropriate that he named the company Oceangate, since that’s what any scandal would be nicknamed.