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The original was posted on /r/linustechtips by /u/MoChuang on 2023-08-17 15:32:19+00:00.
I'm going to get flamed for this and I'm ready for the downvotes...
But seriously, I dont think the timing of all this is coincidental. This all happened because of one thing one employee said about HUB and GN during a tour at LTX that wasn't being recorded by LTT but by another creator, right? The Billet Labs thing is a recent event that is clearly filled with miscommunication and mismanagement, but also would have happened during peak planning of LTX.
I'm not trying to completely excuse LMG here, but I have been on teams planning science conferences and Christian conferences for 100s of people. Its exhausting and mistakes and errors are way more prevalent as people are overworked keeping up their normal workload while also planning a huge event. LTX is way bigger than any event I have ever been a part of hosting. I cant even imagine how exhausted everyone at LMG was leading up to and during the event. I could easily see something like the Billet Labs issue being totally mishandled due to miscommunication while way more pressing issues were being addressed for LTX. And I can imagine that the guy giving the labs tour was equally as exhausted and definitely shouldn't have made those comments about HUB and GN, but was probably just tired and made a mistake with very poor judgement.
On another note, the benchmark errors do not get a pass here, but to be fair, I feel like that is an entirely difference issue. Those benchmark errors need to be fixed, but this is YouTube, no one is obligated to publish accurate information. If LTT wants to become a trusted tech review source and not an entertainment group, then yeah they need to step up their game, but IMO that's not the damning part of this controversy. Its the total mismanagement of the Billet Labs issues and the PR nightmare of having an employee on camera call out other trusted sources and defame them. Both of which can be very easily explained by an exhausted overworked team planning a massive conference that they haven't hosted in many years.