Mediocrates
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I think people are missing the point: having an "Easter Eggs" team is the problem.
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Dude, Elon, if you're gonna put Atari games on the infotainment system, why not allow us to stream videos to the screen when parked?
I think people are missing the point: having an "Easter Eggs" team is the problem.
Every time I put on a bandaid I don't think "oh man, if I just rerouted my efforts I could cure cancer instead."I also love the way some people regard 'coding effort' as a universal constant.
"Your point" perhaps.
Summer interns porting code and AI/NN/AP/Linux kernel full time resident engineers are two completely different categories/ price points/ skill sets.
This is not a zero sum situation.
My company has summer interns doing non-billable R&D while the partners work on billable. Win-win.
Wife got a new non-Tesla vehicle. I actually felt bummed the center display did not have Eggs. It is a selling feature.
You keep using that term, I do not think it means what you think it means...False dichotomy.
I think people are missing the point: having an "Easter Eggs" team is the problem.
So Tesla wants more reasons for people to get distracted while driving? And why the hell is he not focus on releasing EAP which was suppose to be released over a year ago and instead he is doing stupid Easter eggs and ATARI games...
False dichotomy.
If someone who works in the software development industry told me they are satisfied by both the quality of the software Tesla has produced and the rate at which they produce it, I would not hire that person.
So I'll throw a different point of view into the conversation. I don't think the Atari games are an Easter egg. I think they are going into the new OS for a purpose. With all of this talk of FSD and autonomy coming out soon, the driver has to do something. I think they are beefing up the infotainment system for a purpose. That purpose being true entertainment while the car drives you to the destination. Now, we could argue they are putting the cart before the horse, and that may be, but they are creating solutions to problems that don't even exist yet.
Furthermore, my guess is that the processing power of the MCU is only strong enough to be able to handle 8-bit and byte-sized programming of the Atari 2600, and still be able to smoothly process everything else it does. So, we won't be seeing any WoW or Call of Duty on the current iterations of the MCU. My guess is that you'll also be able to pair bluetooth controllers to the MCU when the time comes.
Cart before the horse? FSD is going to be nowhere close to the state where the driver can start playing games in the near future.
Plus, if they really want the big screen to be used for entertainment, they should just have better support for phones. There's much more capable HW in those devices and much much better games selections. And the games library is a gap that a single closed ecosystem like Tesla's trying to do games as a hobby will never be able to match.
So I'll throw a different point of view into the conversation. I don't think the Atari games are an Easter egg. I think they are going into the new OS for a purpose. With all of this talk of FSD and autonomy coming out soon, the driver has to do something. I think they are beefing up the infotainment system for a purpose. That purpose being true entertainment while the car drives you to the destination. Now, we could argue they are putting the cart before the horse, and that may be, but they are creating solutions to problems that don't even exist yet.
Furthermore, my guess is that the processing power of the MCU is only strong enough to be able to handle 8-bit and byte-sized programming of the Atari 2600, and still be able to smoothly process everything else it does. So, we won't be seeing any WoW or Call of Duty on the current iterations of the MCU. My guess is that you'll also be able to pair bluetooth controllers to the MCU when the time comes.