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De Beers vs. Cybertruck scarcity:
I genuinely appreciate @Diana99 and her contribution to our community. But have to respectfully disagree on this point. Hereâs my counter to @elonmusk and @Tesla : letâs compare to the textbook scarcity model:
De Beers controlled ~90% of diamonds, stockpiled them, and ran the âA Diamond is Foreverâ campaign so a relatively abundant resource stayed artificially rare and expensive forever. Pure supply restriction + marketing.
Tesla/Cybertruck: Ultra-hard stainless steel exoskeleton is genuinely brutal to form and assemble at volume (panel gaps, springback, precision issues). Line built for 125kâ250k/year; real sales ran ~10â30% of that.
Now winding down mid-2027 to free the factory for Cybercab. Remaining trucks become limited by physics + opportunity cost, not a cartel.
One engineered permanent scarcity for a commodity. The other built something hard, scaled imperfectly, then chose the next higher-leverage product. Different game.
Key difference: De Beersâ goal was to never flood the market. Teslaâs stated goal has always been abundance and scaling (cheaper EVs, robotaxis, AI). Cybertruckâs limited run is the byproduct of manufacturing reality + the pivot to Cybercab, not the strategy.
Thatâs the contrast. De Beers protected high prices on rocks. Tesla is reallocating scarce factory talent and floor space to the higher-ROI future product.
Iâm am going to say something that will get me in hot water, but I want some of you to think before you pull the trigger on a truck that is being discontinued and is being raised by almost $8,000 at last second.
In social psychology, thereâs something called the scarcity principal. It is a cognitive bias that we have, that convinces us something limited or rare, is actually worth more.
Remember back when I encouraged you all to read a book by Robert Cialdini? He highlights that âlimited quantityâ or âlast chanceâ framing reliably increases perceived desirability and willingness to pay for something even when the underlying product hasnât changed.
So for this case, Tesla announced a production wind down at Giga Texas around mid-2027 (to free capacity for Cybercab), then almost immediately raised prices by up to $7,500 and paused the cheapest trim. That sequence is TEXTBOOK scarcity framing. So you see, the Cybertruck is now framed as finite and ending, so the remaining units are positioned as more valuable.
My dear friends, they are not.
The Cybertruck line was built for high capacity production. The original belief was that 250,000 vehicles would be sold within a year and produced, and the production line has been reduced to only about 30% of its capacity due to low orders. I would be hard pressed to believe that even with the new orders coming in, Tesla is not anywhere close to meeting even 100,000 vehicles that they need to produce within 9 months.
At the end of Q3 Tesla sold under 12,000 Cybertrucks.. so I hate to say this, but I believe the backlog and the fear of not being able to produce all of the Cybertrucks ordered in time is simply a classic scarcity framing tactic to get you to pay almost $8,000 more simply due to your cognitive bias.
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Stop the Discontinuation of Cybertruck - Sign the Petition! c.org/JYBp89rGh4 via @Change
Letâs make the @ChatCharge in march the most epic display of @cybertruck ever âŚ.LETâs GO!
Drove from Madison Wisconsin to Knoxville Tennessee. I would say is added about 45 total duration. But with FSD you canât really tell. Soooo relaxing
I know the gas people are going to push back but...
I just did my first long road trip with the Tesla and I gotta say, I don't think it takes any more time to charge than to get gas. Hear me out on this.
If I were getting gas, firstly I'd have to wait for a pump half the time. Then actually pump the gas before J could go in and use the restroom, get a snack etc.
With charging I don't have to stand there and wait for it to get full, I just plug in and go in. It's usually done charging or close to it after I pee and get a drink or something.
I'm just saying, in real life, it really does not take longer because you do other stuff. Idk anyone that's not running into pee when they stop for gas. $TSLA
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Sometimes you forget how simple life can be. Then You walk out to your @cybertruck and get reminded
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My daughter has wanted to work at SpaceX for 10 years.
Sheâs at the University of Arizona chasing astrophysics and optical engineering â exactly the combo your Starlink / Starshield optical roles ask for. UAâs own degree maps list the required physics and optics courses as fall-only, spring-only, or odd-year-only. Miss one offering and you wait 12 months. Advising has been the runaround, not a path.
This isnât unique to Tucson. Specialized STEM at research universities is scheduled around faculty load, not around students who actually want to build things. The school that produces world-class optics still treats the critical classes like electives.
She doesnât need a speech about academic freedom. She needs the courses, the labs, and a shot.
@elonmusk @SpaceX â if youâre still hiring people who can do the work instead of people who waited out the catalog, sheâs been pointed at Hawthorne for a decade.
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Iâve had a @Tesla stable for a couple years now. And find it strange that you canât assign @TeslaCharging permissions to your children so when they have the vehicle the charging is charged to their payment method. Are there any workaround?
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@OutofSpecDetail curious.. How many @cybertruck owners have come through the shop with removed side mirrors. AKA the OG reveal look?
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@Jumpman23 if someone has contact a mutual friend Bill Schmidt has passed away here in Knoxville with services being held back in Pennsylvania. knoxtntoday.com/bill-schmidtâŚ
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How AI-assisted development is quietly transforming enterprise software engineers
A few years ago, writing production-grade enterprise code meant long hours of boilerplate, hunting through docs, debugging obscure edge cases, and endless context-switching.
Today, tools like GitHub Copilot, Grok, Cursor, and similar AI coding assistants are changing the game â not by replacing developers, but by making the best ones dramatically faster and higher-quality.
Hereâs what that actually looks like day-to-day:
1Speed without the usual trade-offsâ¨Copilot and Cursor generate entire functions, tests, and API clients in seconds from a clear comment or natural-language prompt. Grok helps you reason through complex architecture or debug race conditions in real time. The result? Features that used to take days now ship in hours â while still following your teamâs patterns and standards.
2Higher baseline qualityâ¨These tools surface better patterns, catch common security and performance issues early, and suggest cleaner abstractions. Youâre no longer starting from a blank file or outdated Stack Overflow answers. The AI has seen millions of high-quality codebases, so the suggestions tend to be more consistent and maintainable than what most of us produce under deadline pressure.
3Less cognitive load on the hard partsâ¨Enterprise work is rarely âjust code.â Itâs understanding legacy systems, navigating compliance requirements, coordinating across teams, and making trade-offs. AI handles the repetitive scaffolding and research so you can stay focused on the decisions that actually matter â domain modeling, system design, and risk.
4Better documentation, tests, and knowledge sharingâ¨Generating unit tests, OpenAPI specs, or clear PR descriptions becomes nearly automatic. New team members ramp up faster because the AI can explain existing code in plain language. Knowledge that used to live only in senior engineersâ heads becomes more accessible.
The real shift isnât âAI writes the software.ââ¨Itâs that enterprise developers who master these tools ship more reliable systems, faster, with less burnout.
The developers who treat Copilot, Grok, Cursor (and the next wave of agentic tools) as force multipliers â rather than toys or threats â are already pulling ahead.
The future of enterprise software engineering isnât less human.â¨Itâs more leverage per human.
What tools are giving your team the biggest lift right now?
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@SenTomCotton come on Senator. Letâs get it done here. Letâs make daylight savings permanent. I lived in Allstate northern southern everybody adjust itâs fine.
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Câmon folks letâs encourage @johnthune to take up #hr139 the sunshine protection act. There might be a short period of adjustment, but we all get used to it.
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@DirtyTesLa 2026.14.6.12 doesnât seem to fix the Resuming from stops and hesitation or Navigation and route-following problems does it? My highland seems to have gotten worse trying it in my đ shortly. @aelluswamy I know the team must be working hard. J
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@aelluswamy Iâd be well over the 1000 mile celebration of continuous FSD if not for this. My đ wants to drive all the way up my work driveway and then back down before turning into the parking lot even though it used to turn left directly into the parking lot. Wtf #tesla
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