IDK, dude’s provably pretty capable as long as you don’t attempt to drown him in...

moooo99 · 2024-04-01T13:36:32 1711978592

idk, but Twitter under early Musk leadership sounded like anything but a bureaucratic swamp and he still absolutely and predictably failed. However, Twitter was a pretty different problem domain to what he was initially known for

jiggawatts · 2024-04-01T05:44:23 1711950263

> don’t attempt to drown him in a bureaucratic swamp

You weren't listening to the GP comment.

He's expected to succeed while being drowned in the swamp.

That's what most people mean and expect when they bring in an outsider.

"Fix our problems, but without changing anything to do with management."

fragmede · 2024-04-01T05:47:18 1711950438

There's a difference between fixing technical problems and cultural problems. Hotz has proven to be a wizard at technical ones, while his skill with fixing cultural issues remains to be seen.

devonkim · 2024-04-01T13:14:00 1711977240

Any long-lasting solution requiring continuous investments is going to require more impact on the people side than the technical side. Hiring maybe one or two technical wizard asshats at a company may work for a bit but can’t scale in that eventually asshats will either drive away enough potential contributors or clash with another asshat. Any company actually needing said asshats to conduct business has a form of organizational tech debt in that they’ll need to spend a lot of resources managing around said persons in the end while said person’s ego continues to grow convinced they’re primarily responsible for successes.