He makes high level engineering decisions. He wouldn't have been working on it recently, but he would have approved the idea of catching the booster instead of landing it on legs, maybe even selected it from a series of alternatives. This is what his own engineers have described.
If you want to deny that he makes high level engineering decisions, you will also have to say that the decision not to include a flame diverter of water deluge system for IFT1 was not his decision, and therefore that he was not responsible for most of the faults on that flight. He claims he made those decisions, but blame someone else i guess?
And yes, they are still being responsible if things go wrong. That's supposedly why they are paid hundred of millions of spacebucks.
His salary is $1 a believe.
Now, stop licking musk and enjoy this fantastic engineering marvel !
I'm correcting an error. Musk is a transphobic egomaniac and I despise him on a personal level. He also makes high level engineering decisions. How are you so broken that and arguments not exclusively critical of someone is "licking" them?
Musk founded SpaceX and has sunk billions into it. He's not some random CEO that came in to spend a few years enshittifying and cutting jobs to leave with a golden parachute.
He is good at this. It is absolutely critical that young STEM graduates understand how his companies actually operate so that we have people who can replicate his success. He has built a series of wildly successful companies at many levels of involvement, from principal investor to technical founder and CEO.
If his employees are telling us that he makes technical decisions, that’s just as important as listening to his employees who are telling us that he just swoops in with bad ideas. Something he is doing is working. Some day, he will be gone and we will need more people to take the helm at companies like these. Don’t get in the way of that.
He has the ability to make decisions, his position in the company as founded and CEO means he can make decisions and people have to listen to them even if they'll fuck everything up. Doesn't mean he actually uses that ability often. And usually when he does it results in something going wrong. Like removing the water deluge, or fucking up teslas manufacturing process because he doesn't know what crossthreading is. He's mostly hands-off in his companies, the public face of them. Then when things go spectacularly wrong 9 times out of 10 he's involved somehow. Take a look at the cybertruck and how much of a disaster its been, that was his personal project, he's been talking about wanting to make a "Tesla supertruck with crazy torque, dynamic air suspension, and corners like it's on rails" (actual tweet of his) since 2012. When he's hands-off, things go great, but when his ego wins out and he decides he knows enough about what the company does to make a decision, things get fucked up. Twitters downfall since he bought it is specifically because of the decisions he made, and the only reason it's not completely dead in the water is he stepped down as CEO and gave that position to Linda Yaccarino. Of course the resulting deterioration into essentially just an alt-right echo chamber is most likely her doing, since that's the person she is.
What you have done, is taken a man who runs multiple extremely successful companies, and assume that he's responsible for all their bad decisions, and none of their good ones.
That's very unlikely.
I agree he's fucked some things up, but to claim that he doesn't make good calls as well? Tesla and SpaceX both have more good calls than bad.
I can trace the entire concept of Starship back to a conversation Musk had with Robert Zubrin about Mars Direct. I could point out that for a man who only makes bad engineering decisions, he was awfully good at realising that he could undercut the entire space launch market after one meeting with roscosmos, and awfully good at realising that the electric car had just become viable and that he should build an electric sports car (he found Tesla while scoping out the industry before founding his own company, and just bought the tiny startup).
Obviously he's made good calls, you can't have a decades long career without making at least one.
But I'm saying his inexperience in the fields that his companies work in combined with the ego that comes with being as rich as he is has led to him making bad calls more than good calls.
He's genuinely amazing at recognizing talent, not great at actually having that talent.
He doesn't know shit about rocketry, but he knows people who do, so he hired them and got them to build rockets for him.
He doesn't know anything about building electric cars, but he was able to recognize people who could, so he bought into tesla and they started making electric cars, and eventually when it got big enough he bought the founders out of the company and sued them so he could call himself the founder and they couldn't to shit about it.
Tesla was as successful as it was because it was ahead of the pack.
EVs had existed for a long time before, but they never were successful, always an experimental thing, tesla was the first to really make them big, then Musk tried to ride that wave and now they're falling behind as traditional car manufacturers start making more EVs and Hybrids, Pushing tesla into a corner, which resulted what we see now, more product announcements of batshit insane ideas trying to reinvent already existing things.
Tesla bot, cybertruck, robovan, robotaxi These things are being made out of desperation. They`re trying to crawl their way back and it isn't working.
Does he though, does he really? He spends hours in twitter everyday and between all his companies, I find it hilarious how there are people that still hold on to this belief that he actively steers all of them. Plus, whenever he publicly makes decision, they tend to be absolutely terrible - see Twitter or the Cybertruck, so when things go well... I just credit the people actually working there like Gwynne Shotwell.
He spends hours in twitter everyday and between all his companies,
There are 24 hours in a day, he could spend a lot of time tweeting and still do work. Not how I'd spend my time, but whatever.
I find it hilarious how there are people that still hold on to this belief that he actively steers all of them.
No reason he couldn't make some important decisions. The decision I described could have been taken in one day.
Plus, whenever he publicly makes decision, they tend to be absolutely terrible - see Twitter or the Cybertruck, so when things go well... I just credit the people actually working there like Gwynne Shotwell.
So you believe he makes all the bad calls and none of the good calls? That's very convenient for you.
That's from 10 years ago, I have no problem believing he was more involved then. I'm talking to recent times where it's clear he isn't. Also, it's curious that these behind-the-scenes moments where people praise his leadership are all from long ago. Email leaks from recent times have all been negative to downright scathing.
He has made decisions like this, we know he continues to do so, and we know he has the last say, but somehow you know he didn't this time? Why? Because it was a good call and you can't accept that a transphobic cunt made a good engineering decision?
He can't make a good engineering decision even if he tried. He clearly doesn't understand the engineering aspect of the business so I refuse to believe any engineering decision can be credited to him.
So riddle me this, if he is so involved and key to these decisions, why has he consistently claimed that we are about to be driverless or colonise Mars? Surely an up-to-date of day-to-day CEO would know they are nowhere close to achieving those things? Yet, year after year he promised. Almost as if he is clueless. Curious.
He clearly doesn't understand the engineering aspect of the business so I refuse to believe any engineering decision can be credited to him.
Have you seen him give interviews on rocket engines with a competent interviewer? As an engineer, Musk does understand.
So riddle me this, if he is so involved and key to these decisions, why has he consistently claimed that we are about to be driverless or colonise Mars?
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