A self-driving car developer who tweeted support for the 'extremely hardcore' cu...

• A self-driving car developer and hacker tweeted that he's doing a 12 week internship at Twitter.

• George Hotz said the "extremely hardcore" culture "is the attitude that builds incredible things."

• Hotz was behind creating iOS jailbreaks and was sued by Sony for hacking the Playstation 3.

A self-driving car developer and hacker who said he wants to improve search quality on Twitter is getting 12 weeks to give it a try with an internship at the company.

George Hotz tweeted that he wants to put his "money where my mouth is," and that he's "down for a 12 week internship at Twitter for cost of living in SF."

Twitter owner Elon Musk replied with, "Sure, let's talk."

Hotz replied with, "Cool, my phone number hasn't changed," and added that he's "not the guy" if Musk wants "long term stability."

"I really enjoy diving in to complex codebases and think I could help document and clean up some of those 1000 microservices in 12 weeks," Hotz tweeted at Musk. "Reverse engineering!"

Before offering to do the internship, Hotz asked how people on Twitter feel about "the quality of Twitter search," and what it would take for people to ditch Google for searching on Twitter.

Austen Allred, co-founder and CEO of BloomTech, replied to Hotz saying Twitter's search "really sucks," and is "basically exact match."

Hotz replied that it was "true" and that he "Will look into if there's some easy way to improve this."

Hotz seemingly confirmed his internship at Twitter by replying, "that's what Elon told me my job was, and I will try my hardest to do it. I have 12 weeks."

He added that he will work on "trying to get rid of that nondismissable" pop up that prompts people to log in when scrolling on Twitter without being logged in, adding that "these things ruin the Internet."