[mewse]

Or, since we're apparently playing the game of maybes in this thread, maybe the LLM was only trained on the teams grandmothers' spaghetti recipes, so that new hires can learn to make the best bolognese sauce.

[ben_w]

This being Musk, it wouldn't surprise me.

I mean, consider The Boring Company sell a "flamethrower" despite being theoretically about… boring.

[lesuorac]

I think you missed a lot of the word play. Somebody else has explained Bore[1]-ing vs boring.

But they sold a blowtorch aka not a flamethrower. The difference being a flamethrower actually "throws flames" like 10+ feet.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bore

[ben_w]

I didn't miss anything in the wordplay*, it was obvious. (As are the initials, an extra pun).

I put quotemarks around "flamethrower" because that's what it was originally sold as before obvious and predictable legal issues with real flamethrowers and the fact it was obviously mimicing the prop in Spaceballs.

My point is: neither weed burners nor actual flamethrowers have anything to do with digging tunnels nor any adjacent aspect of civil engineering.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_(manufacturing)

[thejazzman]

Tesla sold a surfboard and whiskey and...

Just saying. It's kinda on brand by not being on brand because the whole network of companies... well I'm trying off topic.

[tomalbrc]

Because Tesla is making.. coils?

[jsjohnst]

Boring as the noun, not adjective. Also, Tesla was named that before Musk was involved, so it’s not his humor involved in naming both. Nikola Tesla is known for a lot more than just Tesla coils.