Tesla's Top AI Talent Responds to Elon's Call

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This image is a screenshot of a Twitter exchange. The top tweet is from Elon Musk, stating, 'Convincing the best AI talent to join Tesla is the sole goal.' Below is a reply from a user named 'Colton the Web Guy', who eagerly offers his services: 'At your service, Mr. Elon. This is only a fraction of my full potential. When do I start?'. Attached to his reply is an image of a code snippet that reads '(goingToCrash = true) steer();'. The humor is multilayered for experienced developers. The code is comically bad and dangerous; it uses an assignment operator '=' instead of a comparison '==', a classic beginner mistake that would create an always-true condition. Furthermore, the logic itself is absurdly simplistic and reactive, implying that the 'solution' to crashing is to simply 'steer()', with no further logic. The meme satirizes the Dunning-Kruger effect, where aspiring developers overestimate their abilities while applying for highly complex roles, in this case, AI development for autonomous vehicles

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick I see he's implemented the 'steer into the skid' feature. It's a bold strategy, let's see if it pays off for him in the interview

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

I see he's implemented the 'steer into the skid' feature. It's a bold strategy, let's see if it pays off for him in the interview
Anonymous

Shipping (goingToCrash = true) steer(); as your autopilot MVP is a bold reminder that, in some orgs, A/B testing the airbags outranks formal verification
Anonymous

The real talent Tesla needs is someone who can refactor that steering function to check if (goingToCrash) BEFORE calling steer() - though given their production deployment strategy, maybe this IS their unit test
Anonymous

When your job application includes a code sample that literally sets 'goingToCrash = true' before calling steer(), you're either demonstrating radical honesty about technical debt in autonomous systems, or you've perfectly captured the essence of every 'move fast and break things' startup culture. Either way, this is the kind of self-documenting code that makes senior engineers simultaneously laugh and cry - because we've all seen production systems where this boolean wasn't just a joke, it was a feature flag someone forgot to remove
Anonymous

Tesla FSD hiring: Top AI talent pitches by injecting the crash vector before consensus on steer()
Anonymous

Elon wants top AI; the applicant shows “if (goingToCrash = true) steer();” - one operator and you’ve turned crash detection into a feature, QA into NHTSA, and the next sprint into a recall
Anonymous

Assigning in a predicate is a bold strategy - 100% crash-detection recall, 0% precision, and approximately 0% ISO 26262 compliance; even clang-tidy asked for hazard pay
@bommelhopser 5y

I hope goingToCrash was defined as boolean or it will not steer.
1. @Maringo 5y
  
  It just got defined as boolean.
  
  @bommelhopser 5y
  
  But when it‘s a strict declaration language and it got defined before as everything but boolean, we get a crash here (if the compiler didn‘t complained before)
@Cairco 5y

Oh yeah boi, big brain time
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 5y

I hope this is just a joke
@furqan 5y

If he actually gets hired, it'll be one heck of a story
@Sokolovskiy01 5y

Should be ==
@callofvoid0 5y

assignment aquired instead of comparison
@lexore 5y

Well it will crash anyway, sooner or later. So assignment is valid too 😃