[dada78641]

Reading that set of quotes, it really is incredible how little Musk knows about even extremely basic things. He doesn't understand there are different problem spaces in tech, and that different problem spaces require completely different approaches and skill sets. To him, something like World of Warcraft is very impressive, so if you build Paypal on the same technology it will be impressive too. Like, honestly it's shocking that this guy is allowed near anything that has a button.

[netsharc]

He sounds like Dilbert's boss...

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-prev...

[teddyh]

Better link: <https://dilbert-viewer.herokuapp.com/1995-11-17>

[rsynnott]

Yeah, I mean that archetype exists for a reason.

[rsynnott]

The "games programmers are best programmers, in all senses" thing is a very, very common point of layperson confusion; not totally sure why.

(As someone who has worked in both the games industry and Big Tech(tm), yeah, no.)

[pas]

Because a game looks hard. Forms look easy. Website? Even a phone can run a website, but a game requires that beefy big box!

[Olreich]

I do think that game companies have a higher percentage of top-tier programmers. This is both due to pedigree and size of the field.

There are some incredible programmers in both big tech and game dev, but big tech has vastly more developers with less pressure to have top-tier talent.

Median developer at both probably represents the same skill because of normal distributions.

[IAmGraydon]

He's deeply autistic. It's a thing they tend to do.