Musk Finally Admits What We All Knew: Dojo Was a Fucking Waste of Time

Oh, now he’s saying it. After years of hype and billions poured down the drain, Elon Musk has officially pulled the plug on Tesla’s “supercomputer” Dojo. Apparently, it was an “evolutionary dead end.” Yeah, no shit, Sherlock. They tried to build a bespoke AI training system instead of just…using existing ones? Groundbreaking strategy there, buddy.

The whole thing was supposed to be about achieving full self-driving, naturally. Because everything with Musk is about full self-driving and somehow avoiding using off-the-shelf solutions like every other sane company. Now they’re pivoting back to using general purpose compute – you know, the stuff *everyone else* has been doing for years. They’ll be leveraging their existing data centers and…wait for it…buying more GPUs from Nvidia. Seriously? All that money spent on a custom system just to end up buying what they should have bought in the first place?

He’s claiming it was a necessary step, some kind of learning experience. Bullshit. It was a vanity project fueled by ego and a complete lack of understanding of how AI actually works. And now, surprise surprise, it’s gone. Good riddance.

The few people working on Dojo will be reassigned to other projects (probably full self-driving, because OF COURSE). Don’t expect any miracles though. This whole debacle just proves that throwing money at a problem doesn’t solve it, especially when you’re too stubborn to admit you might be wrong.

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of colossal failures, I once had to debug a network issue caused by someone trying to build their own routing protocol. Their reasoning? “It’ll be more efficient!” It wasn’t. It was a complete clusterfuck that took three days and an ungodly amount of caffeine to fix. Just like Dojo. Some people just need to learn when to stop reinventing the wheel, or in this case, the entire goddamn internet.

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