> Their engineering culture as a whole is a one trick pony.
what do you mean by this? what's their one trick?
what do you mean by this? what's their one trick?
This is something that is built early, most of the time with a strong influence from the founders/CTO.
Once it is built and scaled up, it can still change but very slowly.
You can hire extremely talented outsiders (John Carmack) but it won't do much.
A company like Meta is like an overfitted AI model, they can do one thing very well and almost everything else very bad.
Take a look at horizon universe, does it look like state of the art for you?