Yeah I mean when you let him directly get involved with something, we get the Cybertruck, which I believe is going to be a huge failure (but we'll see).
To me it seems like he's just hyping up things that are never going to happen while a lot of the engineers and designers actually focus on the things that make money.
> the Cybertruck, which I believe is going to be a huge failure (but we'll see).
I'd probably take that bet, although of course it depends how we define success vs. failure.
I suspect short-to-medium term, it will be a big success, as there's a lot of pent-up desire for one: hardcore Tesla fans, Tesla fans who want a pickup, people that like to be first-movers, people that like how it looks, people that want a pickup and appreciate the benefits that Tesla still brings (efficiency, supercharger network, etc.), and so on. The billion-dollar question, of course, is how it will fare in the market once that initial demand has been satisfied.
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Aside from this, the interesting thing about the Cybertruck is that originally, the odd looks and build style (i.e. the flat sheets of stainless steel) were meant to be engineering-driven: the concept discussed on stage when it was first announced was that it was an exoskeleton, or a stressed-skin design, meaning that in theory it wouldn't need a traditional chassis, and would have weight-savings over a traditional pickup (or car) design. IIRC there was talk of a Model 2 (i.e. a smaller hatchback than the M3) being built using the same approach.
Then, somewhere along the line, this was lost (too difficult? or always just a pipedream?) and it was ultimately built using a very similar approach to Tesla's other cars, without the benefits originally discussed. I'm interested whether we'll learn what happened with this, one day.
Thinking about how both The Flash and Indiana Jones 5 are doing disastrously at the box office, and likely spent a lot of ad budget on Twitter that is now getting zero return. Can't imagine Disney and WB are going to be thrilled.
Yes, I noticed this too, I fed it some HTML with tailwind classes and told it to just list all the tailwind classes that we use and then the CSS behind those classes.. it just hallucinated all(!) the items in the list (and just gave me a list of 10 seemingly random classes). And then when I did asked something else about the code it had forgotten I had ever pasted anything in the conversation. Very weird.
it does degrade when played a lot, though I would imagine new materials could prolong expected life. but indeed as storage its rather more robust / purely "mechanical"
