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First thought: Well, usually i'd laugh, but it's microsoft, so this might actulally work
second thought: wait, Twitter also doesn't produce any hardware... why not start there?
Wait until Musk comes forward with the Macrohard GamerX series of consoles, to play AI slop games.
And the circuitry and QA is also done by AI.
I can take this one: Because he doesn’t actually care about creating anything of value. If he truly believed in it, you’re right, Twitter or even Tesla’s software engineers would be on the chopping block and he’d replace them with AI as soon as he can. But he doesn’t.
He knows this is a longshot. Most likely to fail, but very profitable on the near-impossible chance that it works. But he doesn’t care even if the odds are truly impossible. Because this is an investment opportunity, so people will throw money his way, no matter what the odds.
People assume he’s an idiot, and he is. But he’s not stupid, at least not in every way. He certainly has a skill for separating others from their money, which he happily takes advantage of.