re: #348 Hecuba’s daughter

But sometimes it’s impossible to do “fast”. It’s like assuming that you can have a baby in one month by having 9 woman being pregnant. If this is Musk’s order, he is truly an imbecile. Wait — he really is an imbecile, even before this! It’s one thing to change a process by increasing an existing charge — It’s usually a no-brainer to update existing software for raising a price. Adding a totally different charging mechanism is a very different story.

I’m well aware of that. Elon seems to labor under the misapprehension that in software, anyone can do anything in any arbitrarily determined timeframe just by throwing enough bodies at it. Spoilers: The Law of Diminishing Returns bites especially hard in software development. There are so many bottlenecks to parallel development, especially if everyone is working on one feature in one specific area, that “more manpower” simply means you’re paying people to do nothing but twiddle their thumbs and wait for blockers to be cleared.