[kccoder]

Elon appears to be ham-handedly binary searching for that answer. The problem is that if you go too low, things catch fire and there is nary a soul to put them out.

A more reasonable, emotionally mature individual would've taken time to develop the appropriate metrics to determine which employees were necessary, and which weren't, vs starting with the galacticly stupid approach of keeping the programmers which have written the most code in the past N days, and then following that up by giving generally well-off, easily re-employable, capable engineers an ultimatum, with a three month severance chaser. Who do you suppose is most likely to click that "yes" button? People who are not as easily re-employable.

I wouldn't be surprised if twitter has less than 10% of their best engineers left, with the remaining engineers being the lowest performers. And now those 10%'s lives are all the more difficult, meaning the majority will likely be showing themselves the door in the near future.

Pure, unmitigated, incompetence on Elon's part.