React and Open Source Legacy

Debate over whether React and PyTorch represent genuine positive contributions from Meta's engineering culture, with some arguing React created bloated unmaintainable applications while others defend it as the best available framework. Discussion of whether open source work redeems the company.

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brain was grown in house and likely deserves as much or more credit than open ai for the current llm boom
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that may have been true in product orgs but the infra and dev infra orgs were pretty strong imho.
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+1. IMO the company with the strongest web infra/tooling teams for example. Also very strong teams working on db/data, source control, performance, reliability, pl/compilers, etc.