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> ...aaaand that's the motivation for this feature 5 imaginary dollars says it's just something their AI team built and thought was cool so they rolled it out.
by peteretep 7y ago
> ...aaaand that's the motivation for this feature
5 imaginary dollars says it's just something their AI team built and thought was cool so they rolled it out.
- lynndotpy 7y agoWouldn't there need to be some business motivation to push that all the way through QA and localization and all the other steps before it hits production?
- peteretep 7y agoZuck having an interest in 3D shit should do it
- shawnz 7y agoThe business interest could be attracting talent by advertising their technologically interesting projects in the news
- filleduchaos 7y agoCall me silly but I am extremely certain Facebook is not exactly struggling to attract tech talent to the point that they'd build, test and deploy non-trivial features just to do so.
- shawnz 7y agoMaybe the reason they're not struggling now is because they already have a history of doing things like this.
- filleduchaos 7y agoOr maybe it's being one of the biggest companies in the industry and having hundreds of billions of dollars to throw behind compensation and other perks. Nah, you're right, they put entire teams to work building and maintaining user-facing features so they can add a couple thousand more applicants to the hundreds of thousands they already get.
- shawnz 7y agoThat's also true of, for example, SAP, Oracle, Accenture, etc., but would you say they have the same chance at attracting talent as Facebook?