I wasn't really expecting a large failure quite yet. I'm guessing there are enough people left with secondary or tertiary knowledge of systems to keep things ticking over for now. The question is how long that state of affairs can continue before some combination of worker burnout or deferred maintenance will stretch things too thin. Then, all-hands emergency work to get things running could contribute even more to burnout -> resignations etc.
They could stay ahead of things if they hire into areas related to infra maintenance that got hit the hardest, before issues reach the point of cascading failure. Or maybe put everything not critical to keeping the site up & running on hold as remaining devs get a bit of cross training using the limited people w/ institutional knowledge that remain as trainers.
For myself, I don't see much value in Twitter, in terms of net social value. It's format seems pretty much designed for only the most surface level discussions, part of what I believe leads to some of its toxicity: it's simply too hard to have conversations complex enough to invite enough discourse for that to tip the productive/toxic ratio a bit more positive.
So I've been rooting for Twitter to fail for years. I'm not rooting against Musk: I like his other businesses and at least a portion of their ongoing success is tied to his persona. (At least before the Twitter stuff: His actions there may impact his relationship with major banks that his other businesses will rely on, and Musk & JP Morgan, a bank that wasn't included in the deal & therefore won't be hurt by it, is already on somewhat negative terms with Musk. The twitter deal has added a few more to that list, and other banks have undoubtedly taken note. Some bank will always finance the regular sorts of things any large corporation need for him, but they're all going to be pricing in some additional risk. That's not really a big deal, it's just that I think Musk's persona has previously been a net positive for his companies and now it's lost at least a little bit of that.)
They could stay ahead of things if they hire into areas related to infra maintenance that got hit the hardest, before issues reach the point of cascading failure. Or maybe put everything not critical to keeping the site up & running on hold as remaining devs get a bit of cross training using the limited people w/ institutional knowledge that remain as trainers.
For myself, I don't see much value in Twitter, in terms of net social value. It's format seems pretty much designed for only the most surface level discussions, part of what I believe leads to some of its toxicity: it's simply too hard to have conversations complex enough to invite enough discourse for that to tip the productive/toxic ratio a bit more positive.
So I've been rooting for Twitter to fail for years. I'm not rooting against Musk: I like his other businesses and at least a portion of their ongoing success is tied to his persona. (At least before the Twitter stuff: His actions there may impact his relationship with major banks that his other businesses will rely on, and Musk & JP Morgan, a bank that wasn't included in the deal & therefore won't be hurt by it, is already on somewhat negative terms with Musk. The twitter deal has added a few more to that list, and other banks have undoubtedly taken note. Some bank will always finance the regular sorts of things any large corporation need for him, but they're all going to be pricing in some additional risk. That's not really a big deal, it's just that I think Musk's persona has previously been a net positive for his companies and now it's lost at least a little bit of that.)