Elon doesn't know how to code. But his Doge-teens would do anything to please their master.

I mean, the implication is that it was just a change to the prompt, so could be done (incompetently, given the comically bad result) by any old idiot.

If there's one thing the past 10 years have taught me, its that the supply of people who'll go set themselves up as the obvious fall guy is endless for some reason.

Did he not code at PayPal? Did he not write a computer game when he was a kid?

It's unlikely that Elon would know how to do that.

The system prompt might just be a textarea in some internal webform.

system prompts are often textfiles, I'm sure he could at least navigate a file directory

He's the CEO, so, yes? That's exactly what happened?

Does X have code review policies?

That seems like the kind of pseudo-socialist red tape that blocks 100x engineers from getting things done.