In a recent interview with Time, data scientists and rescue workers say Elon Musk’s cost-cutting initiatives, including repeated waves of layoffs since taking over the firm in October, had hindered their progress. The API modifications made by the corporation are likely to exacerbate the rescue attempt. “If the API goes down, the flow of data will cease, and people will have to depend only on slower modes of coordinating for rescue operations,” Sedat Kapanoglu, one of the project’s software programmers, told Time. “It has the potential to change people’s lives. It’s that critical.”
