"A 36-hour work sprint at xAI? Cue the applause from colleagues. Elon Musk's companies have long been known for their intensive work cultures. During Tesla's production ramps, some employees slept in their cars or, in Musk's case, on the factory floor. When Musk took over Twitter, he said to embrace an "extremely hardcore" schedule or be laid off. At xAI, one employee recently said that they worked for a day and a half straight, sparking responses from their colleagues - and Musk himself."
""Last night I left the @xAI office after ~36 hours of working with no sleep," xAI employee Parsa Tajik wrote alongside an image of himself inside his Tesla Cybertruck. "Although I was dead, I was also super energized. Incredibly grateful to be a part of this team. Happy Thanksgiving!" Tajik's comments are full of fellow xAI employees voicing their support. "And got 192 hours' worth of work done," one wrote. "Bro is a unicorn among unicorns.""
An xAI employee reported leaving the office after roughly 36 hours of continuous work with no sleep and shared a photo inside a Tesla Cybertruck. Colleagues responded with praise, jokes, and expressions of gratitude, framing the all-night effort as energizing and exceptional. Another xAI employee reposted and quipped that work-life balance is excellent and recommended to competitors while urging critics to "let us cook." The episode echoes patterns at other Musk ventures, where intensive schedules, overnight work during production ramps, and rhetoric endorsing extreme hours have been publicly noted.
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