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[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's the thing. Design implies engineering decisions. Decisions requiring huge amounts of expertise, talent and work. All Musk did is get in front of his lead engineers, handed a crudely drawn triangle on a piece of paper and said "It must look like this, make it happen". He did the easiest 0.001% part of the job of coming up with an idea for something that he thought looked cool and the rest was done by people who are far more intelligent and talented than him. And yet he is the one giving himself all the credit for it. This undeserved self-praise, stealing of credit (and wages) from other people's work and the sheer arrogant intellectual dishonesty of believing that he is as smart and hard working as those people who are actually making things happen is why I can't stand Musk.

The fact that the Cybertruck is a stupidly flawed, barely functional monstrosity with tons of production issues and insane price tag are side effects of all the compromises that had to be done to fulfill Musk's demands. It is literally Musk's equivalent of The Homer car from the Simpsons.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I know there's a lot of reasons to hate about Steve Jobs and I'm not contesting those, however what you said reminds me of this quote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Yow6rd-lw

where he talks about taking an idea to product