I’m not really surprised by this news after his Twitter post [1] soliciting the public for code, tbh.

Anyone who knows anything about search knows that it’s not an easy problem to solve, especially at Twitter scale and especially given only 12 weeks to do it. The mythos of the lone genius coder really needs to just die already.

[1] https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159527086740295680...