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To be fair to Meta, we’ve learned from the past 60 years of software development that trying to anticipate everything in advance is a fool’s errand. While some
by rgmerk 3y ago
To be fair to Meta, we’ve learned from the past 60 years of software development that trying to anticipate everything in advance is a fool’s errand.
While some level of forethought and planning is essential, sometimes you just have to learn by doing.
- _ph_ 3y agoI am a huge fand of learning by doing. This is a great way of dealing with problems you cannot anticipate. But it is just bad planning, if you are not dealing in advance with the problems you can anticipate. Like not having enough desks in the first place.
- falcor84 3y agoIteration can be good to more effectively optimize metrics, but what are they optimizing for here? Is there any particular metric that is currently down and should be up, other than butts-in-seats?
- rwmj 3y agoThe metric is profit, and they're trying to optimize it by "encouraging" people to leave. Zuckerberg has wasted $40 billion on a failed idea and needs to turn things around.
- fanf2 3y agoYou can learn by doing a staged rollout. Much less risky than a big bang deployment.