<ul><li>Meta built its own internal developer tooling instead of using industry-standard solutions like GitHub.</li><li>Tomas Reimers, former Meta engineer and co-founder of Graphite, discusses Meta's custom developer tools.</li><li>Phababricator, Sandcastle, and Butterflybot are some of Meta's internal tools that enhanced developer productivity.</li><li>Meta's use of stacked diffs and monorepos became best practices, influencing the industry.</li><li>Code reviews and testing are gaining importance as AI transforms software development.</li><li>Meta's custom tools aimed for seamless integration across the developer workflow and task management.</li><li>Stacked diffs involve developers creating a series of dependent changes to minimize wait times and improve review efficiency.</li><li>Meta adopted a monorepo strategy to simplify collaboration and dependency management.</li><li>AI tools are expected to increase code generation speed, emphasizing quality in code review and testing.</li><li>Engineering metrics like pull request numbers and review time are essential for team performance evaluation.</li></ul>

Stacked diffs and tooling at Meta with Tomas Reimers

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