[andrewrice]

They organized this quicker than I expected. I'm very curious about the criteria they used to decide who goes.

[ethagknight]

Probably whoever leaked the email is layoff #1

[zanagon]

ha ha. No. They're the sneaky one that will have put in thousands of lines of whitespace and punctuation fixes which the software used to fire people will detect as "ultra active". They'll get a promotion and double bonus.

[rsanheim]

For engineers at least:

git ls-files -z | xargs -0n1 git blame -w | perl -n -e '/^.?\((.?)\s+[\d]{4}/; print $1,"\n"' | sort -f | uniq -c | sort -n | head 1500

Merged with a hitlist of people who have made anti-musk comments internally or externally of course.

A purge based on silly metrics and grudges, as all good bullies and tyrants do.