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If this materializes and Hotz isn't barred by his employment agreement from providing public commentary on his experience and what he works on, it would be pretty entertaining to watch.
As he resigned from his own company, comma, it will be interesting to see him at Tesla after this so called internship. It may be an interesting opportunity for Tesla’s on artificial intelligence team, to iterate to have better performance by working with someone experienced in camera based autonomous cars.
Twitter, not Tesla.
yeah i mean the connection they will have at this internship and possible potential of it.
Are the challenges at Twitter technical ones ? It seems they are all related to strategy and direction of the business which isn't the expertise Hotz is famous for.

Or perhaps Hotz sincerely wants to be a lowly intern and this is his idea of a vacation. I can relate.

There are going to be tons of technical challenges in the near future with all of the people leaving.
Tangential aside: I always thought his Twitter handle was "geohot" or something along these lines. I remember it from the early days of his rise to fame through iphone jailbreaking.
That's the proper mindset to have, i applaud him
And I just read a comment in another twitter related post here on HN that Elon’s recent email will cause the good engineers to leave and the bad ones to stay. Bullocks. Some people enjoy challenges. Typically ones with outsized ability, naturally.
They do seem vaguely on the same wavelength so that could work, at least for a short while.
He is going to rewrite twitter from scratch in 12 weeks :)
A command line only twitter that runs entirely on the gpu would be interesting.