Comment on My Job Is to Train Tesla's Cars to Drive Themselves

Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That definitely sounds like an Elon thing to say. The same dude, who demanded people print out a week worth of their commits on paper.

  These people have just about zero idea about how the engineering process works, and it shows.

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  • Murvel@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    These people have just about zero idea about how the engineering process works, and it shows.

    Well, now that’s obviously not true. They wouldn’t have drivable cars if they had no idea how to engineer one…

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    • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      He’s referring to Elon himself

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      • Murvel@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok, so another of Elons companies sends rockets to space, so again, they clearly now engineering…

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    • Venat0r@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I once paid an electrician to do some electrical work in my house, therefor I am an electrician, otherwise, how would I have working power in my house?

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      • Murvel@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Would you claim the company he worked for has zero understanding of how to do electrical work?

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  • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m lucky enough that both of the shareholders of my company are software engineers; one has transitioned to sales and project management, the other is still an engineer, he’s also the CTO.

    Was discussing office chairs with our team lead/office supplies person (it’s a really small company, some people have multiple roles) and when I mentioned that my chair gets really creaky when leaning back but otherwise it works so it really just needs some lubrication, she asked why I would even lean so far back in my chair and the CTO told her “There’s two sitting positions for programming. The writing position and the thinking position”

    TL;DR: Takes an engineer to know how engineering works. Turns out that you have to spend a lot of time just thinking

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• Plopp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also this actively undermines quality in what they do, a requirement to make changes, may make people make changes that aren’t needed, and even possibly changes that can be detrimental to the function.

  Indeed, but not only that. Having employees that have as their only task to spend that much time on such a mind numbing task is pretty much in itself a guarantee for poor quality work. Such work should be divided up among people who do other things as well, so that they can break the video watching up in smaller pieces to be able to remain focused and do a better job.

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• snooggums@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Any change just for the sake of change will be detrimental to the functionality. Constant change means there is never a point in time where the overall functionality can be reviewed for stability.

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