Rui Peres • 12/21/2022

The lunatics are running the asylum

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The article critiques the idea that an outsider with no institutional knowledge could quickly solve Twitter's technical problems. It argues that Twitter's massive, aging codebase, supporting 450 million users and touched by hundreds of engineers daily, makes a rapid fix by a single expert impossible, using George Hotz's brief tenure as an example.

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