Tesla ML engineers are the only team I'd trust with my life, says longtime ML veteran
yunta_tsai · x · 2026-10-07
ML veteran yuntatsai marks another Tesla anniversary by arguing that even with friends at frontier labs, Tesla's ML engineers remain the best he knows.
He highlights their distinctive culture: unsatisfied with theory, they scrutinize every detail until proven in the real world, demanding actual miles rather than charts — a culture he says exists nowhere else.
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