BREAKING: Musk locks down Twitter code, brings in trusted software engineers from TESLA to review the code

Blind ^ | October 28, 2022 | Engineers

[nwrep]

Key points:

1. Musk has ordered a freeze on changes to Twitter code as of noon Thursday, October 27, per Twitter employees. No code checkins are allowed.

2. On Thursday, October 27, Twitter product leaders showed Tesla software engineers (brought in by Musk) the company code. These Tesla engineers are reviewing the code in preparation for a confidential briefing for Musk early next week.

3. Twitter software engineers are locked out of the code, other than a few exceptions personally approved by Musk.

[milagro]

Think they just started one into Tesla.

[Vermont Lt]

Oh for God’s sake, it was a joke.

I forgot...engineers have their sense of humor removed at the start of the their freshman year.

[citizen]

I can trust Musk more than POTUS Biden, VPOTUS Kamala, Speaker Pelosi, senate majortiy leader Schumer, and every democtrat politician.

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"Trust" isn't really an issue. Once such a 'do everything' app is created, it will inevitably grow and be "gravitated toward" and required by government and business as outlined in the above WeChat post. It will simply be a more efficient, more encompasssing system than what's currently in place in the western world.

It'll take a few years but soon we won't be able to escape it. But go ahead, trust as you like.

[Vermont Lt]

I misspoke. That was civil engineers who have their sense of humor removed. Software engineers have never interacted with live people...so they never had a sense of humor to start.

[glorgau]

The models can be perturbed by the training data used. So all of that will have to be examined.

[Old Yeller]

Do a search for the keyword=Trump

[glorgau]

> If it’s COBOL or FORTRAN I’m in!

PL/1 ? ;-)

[Husker24]

They’ve had plenty of time to change it.

[GOPJ]

Good for Musk

[Bailee]

Software engineer C++, C#, and even some old languages RPGLE, Cobol, Basic.

Musk could not pay me enough to look at Twitter code.

I will be surprised if they don’t find backdoors and time bombs on top of mountains of poor programming.

Supposedly Twitter has over 1 million lines of code probably very little documentation will be handed over to Elon as well.

Talk about looking for the proverbial needle in haystack.

I wish them well.

[bankwalker]

there is a record of every change

[blam]

So.....when does the FBI become involved?

[BigEdLB]

One of the Data Engineers Musk fired wondered how he was going to make payments on his Tesla car...
S C H A D E N F R E U D E

[dynachrome]

I hope he can find and remove the ‘bots.

[BigEdLB]

Musk brought in his Space-X programmers to look over the code

[dynachrome]

Nice meme. Will all the virtuous libtards give up their teslas now?

[roadcat]

Code freezes are common. There is always an exception process. In this case it’s just done prior to a big layoff where they expect sabotage.

Ah, exceptions! During my decades of work in IT, I created code on the mainframe that gave my programs highest priority to run, as well as other functions. I did machine language programming deep in the core code that ran jobs. Well hidden to appear necessary. Ten years after leaving, I checked and the code was still there. If an engineer wanted to be malicious, in the event they got fired the code could trigger sabotage.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Trying to review all of the code for a briefing to Musk early next week is going to result in weekend work for some unlucky Tesla engineers, and it will only be a high-level review. In-depth code reviews take time.”

I actually consider those engineers lucky. The bonuses they will get for doing this will be incredible. Great team to be on right now.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“I’m a 70 year old developer. I wonder what language they use.”

BAL360

[GingisK]

Of course. Nevertheless, rust never sleeps.