Cristian Predut

VFX artist interested in the platforms of the future

[Cristian Predut @malkuthro]

If you enjoy what I do, please support me on Ko-fi! https://t.co/WyHVJgKtj5

[Cristian Predut @malkuthro]

Release Tesla Full Self Driving Supervised in Europe - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/opZdVDpFZx via @Change

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship's tenth flight test → https://t.co/UIwbeGoo2B https://t.co/BFrpQPQFUw

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

🚨 Russia: Putin regime enforcers raided 3 largest Moscow nightclubs on Friday night —
Simachev, Mutabor/ARMA and Mono.
Many men taken to the military conscription offices.
Women eventually released after their passports were photographed.
Raids with police K9s lasted for hours.

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Watch Starship's sixth flight test → https://t.co/oIFc3u9laE https://t.co/acpdO2brbP

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

All systems and weather are looking good for today's flight test of Starship.

The live launch webcast on @X will go live ~40 minutes before liftoff, which is targeted for 4:00 p.m. CT → https://t.co/1xyLhQKE2N

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

Should I exercise these options to buy 100 shares of Tesla at $180?

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

Cybertruck is the best Tesla

[Alex @alex_avoigt]

Pay Rise in 🇩🇪 Giga Berlin

The approximately 12,000 employees at Giga Berlin will receive a four percent pay rise from 1 November.

Also at the beginning of the month, the company took on 500 temporary workers just outside Berlin as permanent employees. "This is particularly good news for our workforce, especially at a time when many companies in the German automotive industry are talking about job cuts and plant closures," said Head of Human Resources Erik Demmler.

For employees in production, this is already the second salary adjustment in the current year, after salaries were increased in February by a flat rate of 2500 euros in relation to the annual salary, Tesla announced. "Nobody goes home with less than 40,000 euros, even an unskilled employee in production," said plant manager André Thierig

All of that happened without any involvement of the IGM Union, which criticized the working conditions in Giga Berlin a few days ago.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

A major factor for why Ukraine was NOT overrun by Russia is the Starlink support I provided, at great risk to @SpaceX cyber & physical attack by Russian military forces.

Starlink is the BACKBONE of Ukrainian military communications at the front lines, because everything else has been blown up or jammed by Russia.

In the words of @ZelenskyyUa:
https://t.co/KrumB8K02A

And Vice PM of Ukraine confirms that I am an ally:

https://t.co/1iflhORFpi

[Cristian Predut @malkuthro]

@elonmusk Oh yeah, stop printing money that goes in the ‘trash’ (incompetent exec with huge compensation packages). And everyone else have to pay for it.

[Cristian Predut @malkuthro]

@niccruzpatane Lets call it Cybertron :)

[Milan Kovac @_milankovac_]

@aelluswamy summarized the past decade very well.

When I hopped in my friend’s model S in 2015, it hit me in a weird way: that car was running software all around, had a nice big touch screen (finally, an actual “screen”), was receiving frequent feature updates over the air, and came with a mobile app for essential remote controls. How could a big car company build something like this? Didn’t make sense back then (and still today for many).

My interview with the Autopilot team early 2016 was very different than most interviews I’d ever taken. We first had a technical discussion on something I had built before, with several engineers and the executive in charge of the group at the time. An actual white board chat where we were all bouncing ideas on the matter together. The only places I’d ever seen the face of anyone above, at best, a team lead during interviews was at some small startups.

Every 1:1 interview that followed was similarly practical. Real coding situations you’d encounter as an engineer, not useless LeetCode trick questions typically found in other big companies’ interviews. When we got done, the recruiter walked me through the office. Everyone was sitting literally next to each other: autopilot software, hardware, vehicle firmware, and many other teams interacting live without friction. Eventually, we walked past @elonmusk's desk and he was sitting right there, next to the engineering teams. Not in any separate ivory tower.

One week in the job, and I was already in a team meeting with him brainstorming Autopilot technical challenges, exactly how it went during my interview. And that went on almost every single week, for the 8+ years that followed.

It soon became pretty clear that Elon was directly behind that culture of pragmatic innovation, percolating through all aspects of the company.

Week after week, I’ve witnessed that relentless drive to build features that make people’s lives better and safer, removing roadblocks and unnecessary layers one after another, systematically drilling down to the fundamental “why” - all of this while sleeping at the factory during Model 3 production hell, designing new vehicles, working on BOM reductions, and launching new factories across the globe. During that entire time, through all these chapters, news headlines and other difficult company-wide moments, and while landing rockets on drone ships in the ocean, Elon was still sitting with us in a room every week, often more, with the only objective of building things that will change humanity for the better.

When he announced Tesla would soon start a humanoid robotics program to fuel a future of abundance at AI Day 2021, many once again laughed and doubted. Two years into the program, and Tesla is actively testing early versions of what could well be the first full-fledged humanoid robots equipped with articulated hands autonomously conducting real tasks in a real factory via an end-to-end neural net, running entirely on the bot’s compute hardware. And again, using 2D cameras only.

Whether at Tesla or not, I’d say the same: without Elon, none of any of these amazing things would have ever happened. I can only imagine what a lesser future we’d be living without his involvement and dedication.

If you own Tesla shares, please find 5 minutes to vote.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Ashok, Director of Autopilot/AI at Tesla, has written a new personal opinion article on why @elonmusk is key to Tesla's future success:

"I could go on, but plainly, Elon is critical for Tesla's success in AI. It is his combination of deep technical understanding, insane perseverance and relentless hard work that have positioned Tesla to be a leader in real-world AI. Elon's technical intuition to make these important decisions way before others see it is unmatched. If not for Elon's ambition, Tesla might have dwindled to become just another car company. In the future, fully autonomous cars and useful household robots will be common place and the world will think that this was how it was always supposed to be. Until then, we need Elon Musk to push the frontier, because he sees it already."

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

@SpaceX We need 4K streaming in the future

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

https://t.co/VzTxpktH1q

[Cristian Predut @malkuthro]

@DrEliDavid @elonmusk Yes

[Cristian Predut @malkuthro]

@Tesla This is the way :)

[Cristian Predut @malkuthro]

@NWMike @farzyness @herbertong @GerberKawasaki @garyblack00 This is the Way!

[Cristian Predut @malkuthro]

@nowteslafy Be nice :) This is the way