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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.
Comment by dweezil22 at 20/01/2025 at 02:07 UTC
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TIL! Thanks for the correction. I was aware he was an amateur coder but not that he actually built anything of value. What's funny is that he's obviously a generationally talented marketer and identifier of businesses to market, it seems like he has some weird compulsive drive to also be considered the smartest dev, and the best gamer and all this other stuff that's just not reasonable for one person to do.
Comment by gunshaver at 23/01/2025 at 08:22 UTC
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Before Elon was fired from the merged Paypal/X (the original X, not twitter), he was pushing very hard for the Paypal infrastructure to be moved from Unix to Windows. And this was way back in the day when NT server had just come out, just an astoundingly bad idea.