Aditya Telidevara 🇺🇸

Father, Husband, Software Engineering Leader, Tech Savvy, and Seeker of Truth

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

I wonder why.

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@VastoLorde95 @wholemars Incredible!!

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@HHS_Jim Appreciate the actions here. But kind of surprised that this common sense protocols are response to a wide scale fraud and have not been the default.

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@nickshirleyy Excellent work by you and David.! It’s a disgrace that fraud of this extent is so easy to commit. Every tax payer should be extremely frustrated by this.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

NEWS: The Tesla Cybertruck has just earned a Top Safety Pick+ rating from the IIHS, the best possible rating, and scored overall higher than any other pickup truck, gas or electric, on the list, including the Ford F-150, Rivian R1T, Ram 1500 & Toyota Tundra.

Congrats @Tesla team

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Can confirm this. This is so much fun to drive. Never loved driving or getting driven by FSD more than this.

[mr fundman @mrfundman]

Crazy that so many people still don’t know that this is the best vehicle you can own right now. There is nothing even remotely close.

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@elonmusk When can we expect Grok made available in GCP for its enterprise customers and when can we expect a larger 1M context window?

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Kids creativity on Grok Imagine .. A kangaroo playing basketball while drinking coffee on a big whale that is eating bananas

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#CampCrunchlabsContest

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@cybertruck Yup. I got one. Best car I've driven till date. Thank you!! Warning for everyone... You will not enjoy driving any other car after a month.

[Department of Government Efficiency @DOGE]

Interview with the DOGE team

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Voice assistant in Grok app is unbelievable. It's my companion now during my daily commute in my Tesla. I finished my March monthly learning list just this week that I typically get only half way through. So natural to converse, gets the context right, very easy with explaining concepts and understands my accent 😂. I highly recommend it 💯. FSD on Tesla plus Grok voice assistent feels like I'm in future 🚀🚀🚀

.@elonmusk @xai

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🤣🤣 Guilty of this habit. A certain nightmare when I need something i recently disposed off.

[Russell @theramblingfool]

Every man's worse nightmare came true for me today.

For years I've accumulated all the cables I've ever had into a drawer-- you know the drawer. After years of collecting dust, I finally convinced myself I could throw away my VGA cables.

A few months later, I need a VGA cable.

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Another day of fantastic drive. Smooth lane changes in crazy traffic. Was comfortable all along. Had one critical intervention though where it tried to take a right when its a double red arrow (no turn on red). gave feedback. hoping to be fixed soon.
@aelluswamy @wmorrilll3

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Got FSD supervised 12.5.6.3 today. The best way to describe it is “in control” and “human like”. I could feel the difference. Around lane changes and the curves on the free way. It almost felt like another human was driving me around. I think I believe it now. Not too far away.
#Tesla #FSD

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@RichAboutRE @wholemars Do not install 12.5.4.2. Big regression in quality.

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@greg16676935420 @elonmusk It says trump for me

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@Rainmaker1973 Just did. Thanks for all the informative, educative and entertaining posts

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Mechazilla has caught the Super Heavy booster!

[Wes @wmorrill3]

Have you heard of Conway's Law? It's an interesting observation about the root cause of why large organizations usually make products worse.

In 1967 Melvin Conway wrote "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."

When you think about any product carefully, if you see an obvious lack of integration it's usually due to an organizational social boundary. If you are working on a product you should consider if organizational boundaries are getting in the way of optimal design.

A well known example - early days of Tesla there was a battery team and separately a vehicle structures team. Structures team designed their vehicle body to meet given requirements of strength, crashworthyness, torsional stiffness, etc. likewise the battery team designed their part to be self contained, it could survive durability, accidentally being dropped, being hit in a crash, etc. As a result, we ended up with was a super dense battery in a strong box like structure, which was then Installed into the vehicle which had a nice space for it to mate into. There were no issues with integration, everything fit together perfectly and met all product goals. It achieved one of the highest crash safety ratings measured at the time.

But we had a box full of battery cells that was installed into another empty box shaped receptacle on the body. A box in a box. When you simplify it down that far it sounds obviously wrong. The two organizations had achieved their goals, worked together without friction, and the product met its overall goals. Yet the product ended up with a clear lack of optimization as a result of the organizational boundaries of the two teams working in isolation. Nothing was wrong, but it wasn't optimal.

So before the next product was designed, the battery team gave responsibility of the battery structures also to the vehicle structures team. On this iteration, we ended up with the structural battery, which is an integral part of the body and crash structure. Without it, the vehicle body will not work. It's the literal floor for the vehicle. But the redundancy is gone and the design is more efficient as a result. This vehicle also achieved one of the highest crash safety ratings measured at the time.

This is a super obvious example (in retrospect) and solved with a fairly large organizational change but you can also see this happen in small technical decisions and doesn't require structural change to fix. Someone just needs to question if there is a better solution in a team open to criticism. This mindset to work together to make the best product regardless of ego is where you end up with the most innovative products.

Some smaller examples have been seen when inspecting Cybertruck design. The chassis air suspension which is used to pressurize the battery pack to prevent water ingress. The subwoofer which utilizes the air volume of the body side instead of making the enclosure larger. Centralized zonal vehicle controllers instead of many small distributed controllers. Doors which use the exterior surface as a crash intrusion beam. The pedestrian warning system used as a horn. The list goes on. The excitement and motivation by everyone involved to work across boundaries and actively break down Conway's Law is one of the many reasons I love working at Tesla.