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I think the problem is a lack of "engineering culture".

People experience latency but if you “saw like a corporation” you could only see throughput and never latency.

Obviously not with Gmail/Facebook, in that case it's just 100% incentive misalignment.

The others, probably, VCs are incentivized to fund the people who allocate the most resources towards growth and marketing, as long as the app isn't actively on fire investors will actively push you away from allocating resources to make your tech good.

You would be surprised at how bad the “engineering culture” is at meta. There are surely people who care about page load latency but they are a tiny minority.

I mean, if you look at Meta's main product it's hard to imagine anyone there cares about engineering. It might be the single worst widely used tech product in existence, and considering they produce the frameworks it's built on it's even more embarrassing.

There are a few people who care A LOT about engineering, otherwise everything would completely collapse and not work at all. But they are far from the majority.

What would you change about it?

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