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Great call out, this is likely the most famous example of that situations!
One pet peeve (not that you suggested it) it's important to note that **Elon Musk is not an engineer**. He's never built anything of note, he's only bought other people's stuff. He's no more an engineer than PT Barnum was an acrobat.
Edit: See correction below
Comment by CmdrEnfeugo at 20/01/2025 at 01:28 UTC
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Musk was the primary developer for Zip2, his first startup. From what I’ve read, the code was crap. Not surprising rookie coder with minimal CS education. What is surprising is that once Zip2 hired some experienced pros, Musk hated the code they produced. Apparently he’d rewrite their code back to the crappy style he first used. So he has some engineering experience, but it sounds like he’s actually a pretty bad one.