For all the criticism about the Twitter downsizing they have managed to keep the service running on a much smaller staff count.

Musk is not as intelligent as he claims to be. He is happy to take the credit for others' work.

Like many people on both political extremes, Linus Torvalds confuses people who disagree with him with people who are stupid.

Elon Musk is the best engineering manager this century. And a dickhead.

Edit: Just re-read the story. Going by the quote there, the interviewer lied about what Musk did and the story lies about what Torvalds actually said about him.

"How many lines of code did you write in the past <timespan>" is not a good metric but can work as a conversation starter, at least for engineers.