To a certain extent, I think it's just IBM disease. A company the size of Meta is expected to have an AI research department like Microsoft or Google, even if their core business (social media) derives relatively less benefit from the technology.
Pretend you're an uncreative PM on an AI team; what part of Facebook or VR could you feasibly improve by iterating on LLMs? Perhaps the content moderation system... but that would require wrangling with the company ethics comittee and someone else at the company probably already took ownership that idea. You've gotta do something compelling or else your ML engineers are going to run off somewhere else.
If I were to ask my ML engineers about what they wanted to work on, they're going to avoid areas where their model is outgunned (i.e.: chat) and instead prefer lower hanging fruit which generalizes well on a resume (i.e.: "Pioneered and published key innovations in LLM code-generation").
Of course, the alternative answer is that Meta wants to replace all of their jr. developers with GPUs, but I think their leadership is a little too preoccupied with VR to be actively pushing for such a transformative initiative in anything more than a very uninvested capacity (e.g.: "Sure I'll greenlight this. Even if it doesn't pay off I don't have any better ideas")
And that’s a valid choice if that helps get your app up and running! I think the goal of the parent comment was to establish how making complex technologies simpler helps us deliver more
In Milan, Italy their renting price are too expensive (550€/month + VAT for a dedicated desk) and their space are almost empty.
For context, an house in same location costs 30€/sqm/month.
I don’t understand why the keep their price so high if nobody is going there.
I was very recently at their central Milan location next to the cathedral for a few days and found it to be quite busy. In fact, some days I wasn't able to get a slot to use the shared space.
However, a not insignificant percentage of people in the shared space were students on a discounted membership who were there due to inadequate study space at the local university.
I also found their more central Madrid locations to be quite reliably busy.
I used it in São Paulo for a monthly subscription of BRL 750, something like $150. I also noticed that there weren't a lot of people there. I thought that was due to them focusing on leasing it to companies instead of individuals. But overall it was a pretty pleasurable place to be in, but they could definitely make it cheaper.
