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A comment on Ask HN: How will it impact after Elon's 'hardcore'.

Re:Ask HN: How will it impact after Elon's 'hardcore' by Stealthisbook on Thursday November 17, 2022 @12:57AM (#33635497)
It won't work with Twitter since there's no real goal or definition of success. Putting in long hours and working harder can only help to accomplish something faster, but nobody's defined what they want to get done except for some features around verification and subscriptions.

It's not even clear that the developers were falling short in any real way. The service has been working fine for years, invisibly rolling out features.

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Re:Ask HN: How will it impact after Elon's 'hardcore' by notacoward on Thursday November 17, 2022 @08:13AM (#33638390)
> nobody's defined what they want to get done

Just keeping things running requires a certain amount of knowledge and effort. F.Elon wants to do that with an absolute minimum headcount (or more precisely a minimum wage expenditure). That means actively driving away the most talented, in favor of those willing to flirt with burnout and deliver the most work per dollar. The model is basically a high-tech sweatshop.

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