Twitter has been a sinking ship ever since billionaire jerk Elon Musk took it over in October 2022 (although, arguably, you may say it’s been that approach for some time now). The SpaceX and Tesla CEO has been throwing every thing on the wall to see what sticks, together with bringing on famous iPhone jailbreaker and PlayStation 3 hacker, George Hotz, to repair components of the Chook App. Nevertheless, Hotz, who joined as an intern for a 12-week interval, has resigned from the corporate after barely one month on the job.
Hotz was employed in November 2022 to iron-out some points he had with the social media firm, reminiscent of the nondismissable login popup and the inaccurate search functionality. He by no means planned to stay at Twitter for the long haul however famous he would “put [his] cash the place [his] mouth is” and tough out a 12-week internship at Twitter in alternate for “value of residing in San Francisco,” the place the corporate is headquartered. Sadly, Hotz didn’t even final one full month, as simply a few days earlier than hitting that mark, he took to Twitter to announce he stop, efficient instantly.
“Resigned from Twitter in the present day,” Hotz tweeted on December 20. “[I] recognize the chance, however didn’t suppose there was any actual influence I may make [at the social media company]. Apart from, it was unhappy to see my GitHub withering. Again to coding!”
It’s humorous. Across the similar time Musk tweeted a poll asking his followers if he ought to step down as head of Twitter (which he confirmed will happen “as quickly as [he] finds somebody silly sufficient to take the job”), Hotz posed a similar poll to his followers. Hotz requested if he ought to step down as a Twitter intern, noting he’d “abide by the outcomes” that have been largely “No,” with 63.6 p.c of responders saying so. But right here Hotz is, leaving the social media firm simply as rapidly as he joined. He defined to some Twitter customers that the reason he quit was as a result of he “anticipated the setting of a startup and located one thing very totally different.” Hotz additionally mentioned he began studying Twitter’s code and determined “this ain’t it.” That’s a yikes.
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Kotaku reached out to Hotz for remark.
Ultimately, Hotz is still rooting for Musk’s Twitter. He said the maligned CEO has “carried out an exceptional job” with the social media firm so far however appears extra able to get again to work on his car automation machine studying startup, Comma AI.