"He's just a guy." K-Scale founder Benjamin Bolte says Tesla made some bad technical decisions on Optimus, driven by Elon or his unusual requirements. Bolte points out the sycophantic behavior around Elon but also credits him for creating a fun engineering culture that inspires people to build cool things.

The full interview with @IlirAliu_ is worth watching.

That was four minutes of meaningless rambling with absolutely no useful information. For the sake of our understanding, just be specific and tell us exactly what stupid thing Elon actually said in one of the meetings you mentioned.

“I could probably do that”, okay, then do it. We’re waiting 😝

Dictuntled former employee?

This guy will lose. His attitude alone will keep him from rising to significant heights.

You know like, yeah, I mean, like, he’s just a normal guy, Elon. Like, I mean, my company is in direct competition to Optimus, like, you know, we are competing with a half baked product, too expensive to succeed. Yeah, we know. Let’s talk in a year. In the meantime, you know, get back to work and show us your results.

Ughh such ego.

"I could probably do that" - Has not yet done that. This guy seems far too emotional to trust his judgement. The anti-musk agenda is very odd. You can see the smugness on his face when he tries to bring him down, like he just proved that he's not intimidated or something.

You’re just a guy. He’s just a legend.

Great minds think alike 😉. I wrote a similar post, but was struck by how close it was to Zafod Beeblebrock’s private brain care specialist, Zag Halfront’s quote “Well, he’s just this guy, you know?”.

"Elon is human and is imperfect" is inspiring "Elon is god" narrative makes it unreachable