There is one article I read this week that really caught my attention. I received it via email, as I subscribe to Gergely Orosz’s The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter.

The article explains in detail how the engineering culture at Meta/Facebook has deteriorated recently - from a culture once known for being strongly engineering-driven.

I highly recommend reading it. It is a sad story, and one I hope we can draw serious conclusions from.

The article is open and available for free here:

Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Leadership at the social media giant has been on an AI-fueled rampage through its engineering org. We report what’s happened