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May be it's easier in FAANG because a lot of the work comes from the sheer (and unnecessary IMO) complexity of the stack/tools.

In fact, a common meme within Google is that Engineers are mere plumbers routing protos from one place to another.

(Given how brittle these systems are though, I'm not sure if I trust LLMs to be better; but they may be more suited for dealing with un-interactive delayed-feedback baroque systems that are the norm in such places.)




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