That’s what they said about Elon firing 80% of Twitter’s staff. But X is doing pretty well.

For some definition of pretty well which doesn't include human user numbers, revenue, profit, or ratio of humans to bots

Pretty well from an engineering perspective. But they've lost so many advertisers because it's intentionally not very moderated.

The site is currently running, yes. Don't forget it went down quite often immediately following the mass firing though. They seem to have fixed that.

There was certainly a ton of bloat to trim, but the haphazard "just pick 80% of the people and fire them" was incredibly stupid. Should have chosen whoever was producing the bloat, at least.

Pretty well if you don't mind some features being built twice or three times and appearing inconsistently at different screens, or users being able to bypass usage limits by pressing the back button on the usage limit sign...

The usage limit is trying to block scrapers and xcancel. It's already reset by the time your cursor gets to the back button.

Twitter was never a profitable business. You actually renforce his point.

(Maybe that was intended I might have missed some irony here)

I'm not sure why people keep repeating this when Twitter was profitable at the point that Elon bought it.

I'd be shocked if a ton of contractors haven't worked for X since then

Alexander the Great won his first battle at the age of 18.

Treating 16 to 18 year old like 5 year olds is not the right way to go about it.

Not exactly a representative example you picked there though

Sitting Bull killed his first buffalo with bow and arrow from horseback at the age of 10.

Alexander the Great died when he was 33.

the fact that this recently changed on twitter means it has not, in fact, "always been this way across every platform"

Except that it hasn’t.

X specifically changed the way they operate to financially reward people who post popular content. That led to an immediate downturn in the quality of the network as everyone sought to post the most controversial posts they could that would gain the most traffic.

>> The cost of that $15 per 30sec is NOT FINAL - you'll pretty much end up deciding you want another take - either due to some inconsistencies, non-physical movements, or anything else, which screams "that's fake".

Thats true for grok and other models. You need to generate endlessly and cut endlessly and stitch them up together.

but for seedance you pretty much get stellar output which is extremely consistent in a single shot. Like there is a very good chance you will like what you see.