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Zuckerberg has no clue about software development. He always wants young people, huge bullpen offices, moonshot projects like the Metaverse that fail. Facebook

Zuckerberg has no clue about software development. He always wants young people, huge bullpen offices, moonshot projects like the Metaverse that fail. Facebook open source software does not have great code quality. In some projects that always have been a huge mess they are now adding claude.md files to guide their beloved "AI". They did not add these files for humans before. I think Facebook software is a lost case where it does not matter if you perform the weekly rewriting by LLM or by kLOC driven humans.

dangus 1y ago
And yet they’re wildly successful, including the wide level of adoption of their open source projects like React. Meta’s profit per employee is over $250,000, higher than Qualcomm. There is no Meta competitor in any of their verticals that has a larger customer base. It seems to me that your definition of “software quality” and “lost cause” is factually wrong based on the metrics of success that matter. And in any event, it is an engineer’s tunnel vision fallacy to believe that software quality is the most important factor to stakeholders. People will prefer buggy/slow software that solves their problem over fast/stable software that fails to solve their problem.
- mepian 1y ago
  > higher than Qualcomm That’s a pretty low bar for a software company.
  - dangus 1y ago
    Qualcomm basically has a monopoly in many of their product lines. They’re like the Nvidia of 5G modems and high end ARM chips. They’re also an insane patent licensing machine.
- thefaux 1y ago
  And are almost never offered fast/stable software that solves their problem. When they are, it will come with aggressive fud by the competition or they will just lobby the government to mandate the incidental complexity of their own software so that the competition cannot even enter the market without being brought down to their level.
supportengineer 1y ago
He is a business man. All business men make money by exploiting a resource.

dangus 1y ago

And yet they’re wildly successful, including the wide level of adoption of their open source projects like React. Meta’s profit per employee is over $250,000, higher than Qualcomm. There is no Meta competitor in any of their verticals that has a larger customer base. It seems to me that your definition of “software quality” and “lost cause” is factually wrong based on the metrics of success that matter. And in any event, it is an engineer’s tunnel vision fallacy to believe that software quality is the most important factor to stakeholders. People will prefer buggy/slow software that solves their problem over fast/stable software that fails to solve their problem.

mepian 1y ago
> higher than Qualcomm That’s a pretty low bar for a software company.
- dangus 1y ago
  Qualcomm basically has a monopoly in many of their product lines. They’re like the Nvidia of 5G modems and high end ARM chips. They’re also an insane patent licensing machine.
thefaux 1y ago
And are almost never offered fast/stable software that solves their problem. When they are, it will come with aggressive fud by the competition or they will just lobby the government to mandate the incidental complexity of their own software so that the competition cannot even enter the market without being brought down to their level.

supportengineer 1y ago

He is a business man. All business men make money by exploiting a resource.