To me he joins the ranks of the most basic shady crypto types.
Eh, is it? Not sure if I consider him an authority on anything anymore.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/z2y8i0/fro...
>This is the interview. Build this feature. You don't get source access. Link the GitHub and license it MIT.
is akin to "Build this for free, license it MIT so I can use it without any issues, and oh, btw, I dont have authority to hire you, teehee."
The right approach when you're new is to quietly pick a simple problem away from the core services where you can learn the processes and polices needed to get something into Production. More so when you're in a company that is undergoing a brain drain.
Then you can progressively move to solving more demanding and critical issues.
"Rocking the boat" is more likely than not to make things worse.
Before you run you learn to walk.
He was just clicking around compulsively, jumping between stuff randomly without even reading it, while not understanding what he was looking at. I have no idea how he's successful in tech, judging from what I saw there.
I think judging only from what you saw there is the issue. If you look somewhere like Wikipedia [0], you'll see he was the first person to jailbreak the iPhone, the first person to achieve hypervisor access to the PS3's CPU, he took first place in several notable CTFs (at least one time as a one-person team), he worked on Google's Project Zero team (and created a debugger called QIRA while he was there), creating comma.ai, and the list goes on.
Spent two weeks trying to find someone to build a faceted search UI and then quit.
a) It is valued at about a 1/4 of what it was purchased at.
b) Twitter Blue has generated an irrelevant amount of revenue and churn is increasing [1].
c) Roadmap looks poor. Video is a terrible direction where only Google, Amazon, TikTok etc have been able to make the numbers work and that's because it is subsidised through other revenue sources. Payments is DOA given Twitter's inability to comply with existing regulations let alone how difficult KYC/AML is to manage.
d) Regulatory and legal risk increases by the day. Lawsuits continue to pile up and EU/FTC are hovering around as Twitter is not in compliance with previous agreements.
e) Brand safety continues to be a huge challenge that isn't solvable without effectively going back to what Twitter was previously.
f) BlueSky and Instagram are both releasing competitor apps to the broader public in the coming months. The market simply won't sustain this many text-based social media apps.
b) Every social media company has a well populated graveyard of failed experiments behind them.
c) Opinion.
d) Business as usual for every social media company since the dawn of time.
e) Opinion. And advertiser behaviour suggests otherwise.
f) History is littered with new entrants which fail to unseat the incumbent. It does happen, but it’s statistically rare.
As well as comments from Musk himself about the decline in the value of Twitter and from advertisers themselves about the challenges around brand safety.
At best it has sped up towards that destination, at worst changes will eventually avoid it.
h) the tweets served are no longer weighted towards followers but instead whoever paid for blue checks
i) accounting on views is entirely wrong with a tweet registering a billion views
I don't disagree with him, it's just clear that he didn't understand how dire the financial situation was and that even a progressive refactor starting with the most basic features would take considerable engineering hours and money.