It is psychotic but it’s pretty on brand for Musk. See his behavior in the Thailand cave rescue incident.

Personally I’m interested to see if he starts claiming he’s a founder of Twitter like he does with Tesla

He'll say something like "Founder of Twitter 2.0"

Chief Twit*

Different companies get bought for different reasons. Sometimes you’ll see manufacturing companies bought and everyone fired because the buyer wanted the machines and material and the real estate and brand etc, but didn’t care about the organization itself.

Musk clearly didn’t buy Twitter to aquhire their data engineering department, so cleaning the slate and bringing on a new team might Be the fastest way to get where he wants to go.

Not a fan of Musk, but.. it is officially his business. Why do you assume he was not spending that time getting re-org plan in place? It is not narcissism. It is "I bought something and I want to make it look the way I want to."

To be fair as part of the purchasing process, musk has had plenty of inside information for quite a while now.

That would have been true, if he had been working towards closing in a good-faith way instead of claiming repeatedly to have canceled the deal and fighting it in court.

The level of narcissism here is astounding. The notion you can step in on day one to a complex deal and immediately know all the proceedings is psychotic.

Copy and pasting the parent post? Or are you just admitting to the world that you’re a bot account

Yeah, you got me. I'm a bot account. Nailed it.

You must have been one of the Twitter data engineers.

I guess I was fooled by the exact wording you used like the parent poster. Was there any particular reason for that?

Honestly: snarkiness. Not a particularly high quality post, I admit, but it is a bit grating to see people being very reactionary in all the Twitter-related threads.

This is not the kind of discourse anyone wants to see on HN.

Do you mean calling people psychotic?

Which is why he tried to cut and run I imagine.