What George Hotz thinks about software quality

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American programmer and hacker, founder of the self-driving company Comma.ai and of the tiny corp, which builds the tinygrad neural network framework.

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2 dated positions, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what George Hotz has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 29 Jun 2023

   Our readingTwitter needed refactors before features: a code base that bad has to be fixed before anything new is built on top of it.

   Their wordsSo, my technical recommendation to Elon, and I said this on the Twitter spaces afterward, I said this many times during my brief internship, was that you need re-factors before features.

   ↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com 22nd of 30 in this recording

3. 29 Jun 2023

   Our readingThe first move on a legacy code base is tests you can trust, before a single line of the code itself is changed.

   Their wordsI mean, the first thing that I would do is build tests. The first thing I would do is get a CI to where people can trust to make changes. Before I touched any code, I would actually say, “No one touches any code. The first thing we do is we test this code base.”

   ↗George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God | Lex Fridman Podcast #387youtube.com 23rd of 30 in this recording