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by ben_w 1093 days ago
> No company I've worked at after FB/Meta ships or works even at a non-eng level with the same velocity.

This is a curious thing to see.

As a mere user, and speaking purely about FB not any other Meta IP…

Other than unbreaking things that break when the OS and browsers change under you, has Facebook shipped even one thing in the last five years?

Don't get me wrong, I know it takes a lot of effort to stand still — forgetting the Red Queen effect was Musk's obvious mistake with Twitter even before stuff broke — but Facebook seems completely unchanged.

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I don’t work for Meta, but you can see their product announcements here: https://about.fb.com/news/category/product-news/
Most of the open source Ai things are Meta. React, GraphQL, pytorch, rocksdb, docusaurus, prophet, a whole ton of internal tools that aren’t public knowledge. Full disclosure I haven’t worked there since 2019 though, so not sure since then.
None of that looks like it's about the Facebook website itself?

But I guess that implies you didn't mean the website itself when you wrote "FB" in the comment I replied to? :)

(One of the most well known consumer brands shipping tooling rather than stuff the consumers use directly is, ah, apt for a company called "meta").

When I worked there it was still called Facebook. I’m still not used to calling it Meta haha. My bad.