"The metaverse is the future of this company! We've hired the very best brains in the world to make these 1998 era PS1 polygon avatars!"

whole company goes offline

The Metaverse engineers and AI researchers don't actually run the infrastructure, but by all means, keep shitposting. It's so clever.

Yes, but there's been a trend recently to cut costs on all engineering except AI. Might be related

You keep defending developers while I'm pointing the finger at corporate. But good victim complex.

Yep. I've also noted that the people making such claims never seem to cite their own work as an example of how to implement something at Facebook or YouTube scale that is less "brittle".

Armchair quarterbacking isn't just a U.S. football phenomenon.