Evan Spiegel

And that is so important because I think to your point, sometimes people over-rely on this critique process and great ideas get filtered out.

And so I think creating this culture on the team where you can bring anything to the design meeting, there's no filtering process, I think is just so important.

Taking a step back, it's definitely not a requirement to ship code on the design team, but I think people are so passionate and curious about learning new things.

One of the things we've always tried to do on the design team is just figure it out.

I remember in the early days of some of the 3D graphics stuff that we were trying to do, one of our team members had never done 3D graphics before, and they were like,

We're like, okay, let's just figure it out.

Right.

So they took some online tutorials and like, you know, boom, like we were off to the races.

So I think the design team has always been really flexible in terms of, you know, their curiosity, learning new things.

And so I don't think you have to like push people or create a requirement or something like that for folks to want to adopt new tools and want to, you know, want to ship code.

I think, you know, the big question now that everyone and anyone

thinks they can submit a PR is like how we don't break things at a billion or nearly a billion user scale, right?

That's really important.

So I think what we've really tried to do is also develop AI tools and guardrails to make it easier for more people to participate and submit code, but also reduce the likelihood that we're going to have some sort of bug.

So we've got automated code review now.

We've, I think, automatically detected like

close to 10,000 bugs at this point, probably.

We have a system at Snap where on the internal version of the app, you can shake to report your problem, and agents now debug exactly what happened, what went wrong, and can actually suggest a fix.

And I think in pretty short order, it'll be implementing the fix as well, which is pretty crazy.

I think taking a step back, there's so much excitement around the way that AI is going to change the way that companies work.