The ATC systems desperately need a lot of love. Elon has too much faith in his own ego and is more likely to half ass something than fix it.
Something being broken is one thing, the manual systems are there for a reason. Something behaving oddly, giving false readings or the like…
I have no confidence that Musk has the right approach to be a positive here.
He’s got engineers who send rockets into space and land them back on earth successfully.
Have built autonomous vehicles
Keep one of the world’s largest social networking sites up.
I’d be more relieved that sort of engineering talent is looking over the reliability of the systems that are failing, than being concerned.
■■■■ me this isn’t Kevin and Sandra with an agile board using chatGPT for help.
I watched him ■■■■ up the reliability of Twitter. It was an absolute ■■■■■■■■■■■.
I do not give him credit in this space. His track record in making changes to an existing software system was his emperor’s new clothes moment.
It’s dumb to even contemplate the idea of Mars when we only colonize about 3% of Earth. Yup, not the deserts, the rivers, oceans, seas, mountains etc etc.
Lets see Musk et al do a cost benefit analysis.
vs
Oh well, at least Global Warming is a long way away
Incorrect. We’ve crunched up, processed and utilized roughly 75% of land worldwide which is available to us.
Amazing response. So his buch of college dropouts and high school grads are the ones to fix any issues. WTF would they know about ATC or anything at all. It will take me a while to get over this post.
You said land, I said Earth and I did mention the oceans etc. Haven’t you seen Waterworld? There is fucktons of space left that is far easier to populate than Mars.
Fair enough
Theres details about the guys apparently working for him available online. They aren’t your average computer programmers.
Settle. They are looking at the data to analyse why billions are leaking from the system.
And read up on what these guys have achieved so far.
It’ll be a bunch of very young tech bros with no doubts tearing down systems they don’t really understand one handed, because their other hand is very busy.
They are going to make mistakes because more furious onanism is going into it than thought.
That literally contradicts what I was replying to. They are posting live updates. That is CHANGING the system, not ‘looking at the data’.
The difference is extremely unsubtle.
I know what they say they’re doing. They may even, to some degree, genuinely intend to do what they say they’re doing, though it looks to me like there’s an awful lot of witch-hunting in order to throw ideological enemies out of work.
But either way, I’m less worried about what they say they’re doing, and even about what they really intend to do, than I am about what they may accidentally do by mistake or out of ignorance.
Anyone pushing updates to prod after only having a week to familiarise themselves with the system, is a fkg fool. It may be an approach that works in startups, or on systems where the worst consequences of errors/failures is that your business loses a bit of money and people make funny memes about you. It does NOT work on big mature legacy payment systems that underpin the world economy.
Be careful what you read on the topic.
Then there’s a tonne of info on the backgrounds of the data scientists/programmers musk has employed.
These guys are identifying and likely passing on what needs to be fixed and how.
Before moving onto the next thing. Quickly.
More likely is that they will be leaving the actual implementation of the updates to people like yourself.
This is what they have stated. People will doubt it though regardless of it being true or not.
May be good programmers so what. You need to understand far more than how to write good code. WTF to the know about ATC, planes or anything. Would be very dangerous to have them poking around in a system they know fa about, what about testing and everying else that goes with implementing an upgrade. The smallest FU could cost many lives. Remember what happened with the 737 max.
For sure. Unlike here they have a lot of press who will throw shade and doubt and confusion on what Musk and co get up to as well as the outlets who don’t.
IMHO still what they really want with the payments system is to analyse the data for political gain. That could be to eliminate waste.
But they will likely find along side potential national security issues which Musk has tweeted about, maybe patterns on partisan spending , a lot of redundant government spending.
It will depend a lot on how it’s used to support decisions. My tip is that Trump will use the insights gained for political advantage.
I think initially Musk demanded some Aid spending be stopped.
(Which treasury can’t block - but Trump can then ask the federal agency who okayed the spending to cancel it. )
Theres obviously some political gain to be had there.
They don’t need to be experts on government operations they will let AI work that out for them.
My understanding it’s about system uptime for ATC. Not trying to change the functionality. Ie keep the lights on.
This stuff is routine for IT staff here(monitoring uptime, testing code for memory leaks etc). I’ve got a mate who does it here in Sydney. He works in at Telcos, Banks, Insurance, Utilities etc.
He is no expert on how those businesses operate and doesn’t need to be. He’s asked to instigate detective and remediation work to keep them running well.
It wouldn’t make sense for anyone who doesn’t know about the science of air traffic control to make functional changes. How on earth with air traffic controllers be able to do their job?
To let cowboys have access to the system without any controls is just madness. People’s lives are at risk
There are some seriously optimistic takes here. Elon’s a very naughty boy, not the messiah. The American people, the sick and the poor, and countries in crisis dependent on USAid and its international affiliate groups just have to “see how it all pans out”. Disruption is cool bro.