Comment by threeseed
16 hours ago
Also the fact that he is delivering on Fediverse integration with Threads.
I don't think most people expected that to happen so quickly or frankly at all.
16 hours ago
Also the fact that he is delivering on Fediverse integration with Threads.
I don't think most people expected that to happen so quickly or frankly at all.
VR also gets a lot of hate, and they definitely dropped the ball on user-facing software, but Meta is doing very substantial, deep and valuable long-term R&D on VR hardware. They are also doing a lot on systems software, with their OS and all the low-key AI that enables excellent real-time tracking, rendering and AR.
It might not all be open-source, and they are doing it with an expectation of long-term profit, but they are earnestly pushing the horizons (pun intended) of the field and taking-on lots of risk for everyone else.
It's undeniable now that they are a serious and innovative engineering organization, while Google is rapidly loosing that reputation.
Neither did the company.
Most new products fail at meta, because they become a "priority", throw thousands of engineers at the problem and get bogged down in managing a massive oversubscription of engineers to useful work ratio.
Threads happened because a few people managed to convince each other to take a risk and build a instagram/mastodon chimera. They managed to show enough progress to continue without getting fucked in the performance review, but not enough for an exec to get excited about building an empire around it.