> Private Equity and Wall Street doesn't have pressure for resilience, it has pressure for churn. As long as revenue and spending... exists... things are fine. Ideally they are numbers that grow. This doesn't lend itself to clearing out a development backlog, or engineers doing the most important things, it lends itself to rapid iteration and justifications for the iterations.
Did we read the same article, because it seemed clear that all that resilience work was done when the company was public shareholder owned, not under the new private owner.
I read the article, I wanted to use the space to point out that Elon's fortunate that it has been done, and also that the technology infrastructure things he needs to focus on aren't impossibly challenging to do, if people are expecting it to be.
So operating Twitter with 80% fewer engineers isn't the voyeuristic suicide that many of us are hoping to be amused by.
Did we read the same article, because it seemed clear that all that resilience work was done when the company was public shareholder owned, not under the new private owner.