Reel Friends: Building Social Discovery that Scales to Billions
Meta engineers reveal how a seemingly simple 'Friend Bubbles' feature required complex ML models and cross-platform behavioral insights, uncovering design principles for large-scale social recommendation systems.
Meta Engineering Blog · May 13, 2026
Quoting Luke Curley
WebRTC's packet-dropping mechanism for low latency fundamentally conflicts with AI voice interaction's core need for prompt accuracy, where users prefer waiting over receiving garbled input.
Simon Willison · May 9, 2026
The people do not yearn for automation
The article highlights a cognitive gap between tech elites with 'software brain' and the general public, arguing that AI's popularity hasn't made people yearn for automation, but rather反感 its flattening of human experience.
Simon Willison · Apr 25, 2026