DandomRude@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoLinus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for itwww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square1linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoLinus from LTT asks Linus if he’d ever heard of software developers being terminated based on how many lines of code they’d written . Linus Torvalds responds “Anyone who thinks that’s a valid metric is too stupid to work at a tech company…” It’s clear Torvalds doesn’t know who this is about when questioned. Linus hints to him it’s about Musk. “Apparently I was spot on [about Elon Musk being such and individual who is too stupid to work at a tech company].”
Linus from LTT asks Linus if he’d ever heard of software developers being terminated based on how many lines of code they’d written .
Linus Torvalds responds “Anyone who thinks that’s a valid metric is too stupid to work at a tech company…”
It’s clear Torvalds doesn’t know who this is about when questioned.
Linus hints to him it’s about Musk.
“Apparently I was spot on [about Elon Musk being such and individual who is too stupid to work at a tech company].”