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Better in theory than IRL. You think the Don was able to get top dev talent lol?
by autospeaker22 4y ago
Better in theory than IRL. You think the Don was able to get top dev talent lol?
- nightski 4y agoTop dev talent is overrated imo. Not to mention almost every dev thinks they are top tier even if most of us are just mediocre.
- autospeaker22 4y agoI guess there's that.. but at a rate of 2 million a year, if someone was under-performing I'd imagine Elon would quickly be able to cycle in and out. And if the whole thing fails after 1-2 years, it's still not even half a billion spent. Compared to the titanic Twitter sinking.
- robocat 4y ago> Top dev talent is overrated The problem is that talent is defined by hindsight: “When the company was acquired by Facebook, it had 35 engineers” https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-users-50-engineers/ https://www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-serves-900-million-us... Let us start with engineering team A and and an equally talented engineering team B. If team B had the luck to work on a successful product due to a successful market, we call them talented. If A flamed out due to unpredictable reasons (that their market turned out to be shit), we lambast the lack of ability of team A. But technical talent is definitely not overrated - because there are too many examples where talented teams have built unicorn multi-billion $ businesses.
- fredley 4y agoI don't think you even need top dev talent to build Twitter now. Maybe you did back when it started, but it's not something a team of experienced, competent, 'regular' engineers couldn't build and more successfully than 'top' talent.