[completelylegit]

Once upon a time at Tesla, Elon brought SpaceX staff in to weed out the undesirables.

The autopilot team didn’t like being quizzed on basic c/c++ questions and that was the first time almost all of AutoPilot quit.

Or so I heard.

[jiggawatts]

If people developing a system that controls two-ton death machines get their panties in a twist about having to demonstrate basic competency in a memory-unsafe language… it’s probably good that they quit.

Airline pilots don’t quit in a huff because they have to demonstrate basic competency annually.

[thwayunion]

This take might have more credibility if Tesla weren't facing criminal charges for its failure to deliver autopilot.

[nxm]

Criminal? No one is going to jail for failure to deliver on a very difficult AI problem

[thwayunion]

> Criminal?

Yes: https://www.reuters.com/legal/exclusive-tesla-faces-us-crimi...

> failure to deliver on a very difficult AI problem

It's the combination of claims that the feature could be delivered and a failure to deliver.

Failure is never illegal. Lying about failure often is.

[rvba]

As much as I dont like Elon, I wonder how much of them quit since they couldn't answer those questions.

Probably I will get tons of downvotes, but there is this strange myth here (and on reddit) that there are no incompetent programmers.

When in reality there are tons of incompetent programmers, just like there are incompetent people in any other job.

[Tronno]

Competence is not measured by one's ability to drop a leetcode solution on command.

It is tempting to think otherwise if you have spent effort cultivating that ability. But anyone with better things to do would be justified to read it as an insult.

[hnfong]

Right, so it seems (if the news are to be believed) that Elon Musk updated his strategy and asked his new underlings to bring their own code for review...

Of course, somehow according to sentiment here this updated process is still considered an insult...

[bamboozled]

Look how well all of that ended...