re: #350 Dopamine Fish

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.

Yet early in his career, he actually programmed a system. He should know better. He reminds me of an actuary in my firm who promised his client a special system modification for only $1000; the member of the team I was on who was assigned the project took several months and a real cost of probably $10,000 to complete it. Elon is a terrible, irresponsible person.