I recently visited Uber's engineering blog (https://eng.uber.com/ https://eng.uber.com/) and I can't help but it seems they have engineers goofing around with n

I recently visited Uber's engineering blog (https://eng.uber.com/ https://eng.uber.com/) and I can't help but it seems they have engineers goofing around with new technology completely useless for their core business ("Look, we now also use meta learning like all the hip kids!") A company that is swamped with ad revenue money may can afford this but for the rest (especially when they are VC backed) there will come the time when they have to ask themselves if they really need 4000 engineers to maintain the service that brings in the money (= a few apps and a cloud based backend)