Discussion

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @beffjezos xAI was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up. Same thing happened with Tesla.

• @ibd_ecarson Ed Carson on x

  Elon Musk basically confirming that the SpaceX deal was an xAI bailout (after xAI bailed out Twitter/X). How else could you explain xAI's $250 billion valuation in the SpaceX deal when the startup - which is bleeding cash w/o much revenue - was “not built right.”

• @realjimchanos James Chanos on x

  Reminder that @SpaceX investors were diluted 20% to “buy” xAI. $TSLA

• @flintcasey Casey Flint on x

  I don't know why he tweeted this - it makes him look extremely desperate for talent. “I am lowering our bar”

• @fredlambert Fred Lambert on x

  2018: Musk quits OpenAI, citing conflict of interest with Tesla's own AI effort. 2019: Musk claims Tesla is now an AI company 2020-2022: Tesla misses every single autonomy timeline set by Musk 2022: Musk sells billions worth of Tesla shares to acquire Twitter - reducing his

• @chafkin Max Chafkin on x

  obviously long history of musk doing this, but also...this is a company that has already raised and burned through billions if not tens of billions of dollars and is attempting to claim a significant percentage of Musk's less troubled rocket company [image]

• @ctrlaltdwayne Dwayne on x

  Imagine you're an xAI engineer. You worked 80 hour weeks for a year. You helped build Grok. And then one morning you open Twitter and your CEO has told the entire world that everything you built was wrong and needs to be redone from scratch. And he thinks this makes him look like…

• @benjamindekr Benjamin De Kraker on x

  I strongly suspect that many of the foundational problems at xAI were kept hidden from Elon until very recently. There were layers to the iceberg, and he (unfortunately) only saw the parts above water. Those of us who were further down saw the cracks but were told to shut up.

• @ethanhe_42 Ethan He on x

  Personal story: I applied to xAI in 2023 when it was founded and got rejected after an interview round. I went back to honing my skills. In 2025, xAI reached out to me, and I was fortunate to get an offer. Now, 8 months in, I can confidently say: this is the best place to do

• @twanzio @twanzio on bluesky

  “Not nearly racist or misogynist enough so we gotta start from scratch” [embedded post]

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on bluesky

  Prediction: it will not be built right the second time around, either [embedded post]

• @danielmconnolly @danielmconnolly on bluesky

  Narrator: It will not be built right this time either.  Please pay at the pump.  Thank you.

• @xdnibor Robin on x

  Elon does this relatively often. And it works. Not too long ago, he fired almost the entire Supercharger team. Now it's thriving like never before. In 2018 he fired a lot of the managers and staff from the Starlink team.

• @brianroemmele Brian Roemmele on x

  This is bold leadership. It is the only way to build things right. I absolutely applaud this approach and the guts it takes do innovate.

• @benjamindekr Benjamin De Kraker on x

  Here is an xAI story.  When I was first hired (low level) by xAI, I was extremely excited.  I greatly admired Elon and what Grok could be.  I have a pretty cool AI following here on X. Some big names see my stuff, including Elon himself (at the time).  Lex, Beff, Andreessen, Arav…

• @basedjensen @basedjensen on x

  Look I may be biased but come on big e saying this is extremely insulting to the brilliant team who was with you. Saying it was not built right the first time says a lot about your leadership than anything else

• @benjamindekr Benjamin De Kraker on x

  Some of us tried to alert you that there were problems, chief.

• @electricfutures @electricfutures on x

  Raises $20B, including $2B from Tesla despite shareholders objecting, values xAI at 25% of profitable space company in merger, then admits it was actually worthless and he diluted SpaceX investors by 20% to save his cash-burning CSAM machine which needs to be entirely rebuilt

• @eastlondondev Andrew Jefferson on x

  I interviewed at xAI, 3 of my 4 interviews were leet coding no AI allowed. No check whatsoever of my ability to use AI as an engineer. Compare with Replit where I've just been contracting - they're creating new kinds of interviews where candidates get access to Claude code and

• @sporadica @sporadica on x

  every single time i hear a former xAI employee speak, it's just more of the same bullshit i've also watched accounts get banned on this site for criticizing Elon and xAI so, excuse me for not believing in mein fuhrer Musk anymore. dude is a baby. get ya shit right Elon, then