Like many people on both political extremes, Linus Torvalds confuses people who disagree with him with people who are stupid.
Elon Musk is the best engineering manager this century.
And a dickhead.
Edit:
Just re-read the story. Going by the quote there, the interviewer lied about what Musk did and the story lies about what Torvalds actually said about him.
> The best engineering manager in terms of getting things done.
Beyond the joke truck thing, his car company hasn't released a new car in almost seven years. Twitter doesn't appear to have done much beyond release a few previously gated features (longer tweets, tweet editing, and the birdwatch/community notes thing were all things they were previously testing) since acquisition.
Yes; they have yet to have a proper orbital launch with their new product; it's substantially behind schedule. The best engineering manager in terms of getting things done could surely do better.
> Twitter sacked a large %age of staff and kept going fine.
I mean, I'd hope "the best engineering manager in terms of getting things done" would add up to more than "the service hasn't substantially changed in three years, except in that it is rather more unreliable and that the spam prevention, never wonderful, seems to have broken down entirely". That seems extremely unambitious. Wasn't it meant to be "the everything app" by now?
> The Cybertruck failed because of marketing, not engineering
Fundamentally it failed because it was ill-conceived, but it also had fairly severe quality and design defects. No amount of _marketing_ would have saved it.
Again, I'm just not seeing anything that makes me think "bestest engineering manager ever". Actually, I see no reason to think that he has any recent experience as any sort of engineering manager _at all_; he appears to spend most of his time spouting nonsense on Twitter and failing at ill-conceived joint ventures with Donald Trump. Neither of these are generally considered to be part of the core skill set for engineering managers.
Elon Musk is the best engineering manager this century. And a dickhead.
Edit: Just re-read the story. Going by the quote there, the interviewer lied about what Musk did and the story lies about what Torvalds actually said about him.