Fiona Fung

I started out like it was for a very short amount of time.

But actually, this was my journey between Microsoft and Meta.

So at Meta, I interviewed as a manager.

But I think at least for the first quarter, I was also an IC because I really wanted to learn what it's like to be a Meta engineer.

Because before then, I was at Microsoft, kind of like cut my teeth on engineering at Microsoft.

So I knew all the code bases, the tools, the languages.

And yeah, but it was so valuable to have those first months, like actually learn what it's like to

ship as a meta engineer plus it was also fun like I think sometimes we forget if we like and that's by the way what I love about cloud code because the last time I shipped production software at meta was probably 2017 and every year I might start like I do a lot of dog fooding and a lot of you know like I also use dog fooding to help me like vet the quality of product as well

Um, but it's been a very long time since I shipped production software.

It's because part of it is I don't, I don't want to screw something up.

Like I'm always, I'm always so scared of what if I do something and then I cause a bug and then my verifying everything properly, or am I wasting someone's time?

Because, you know, like also the, the, the tool flows would change.

But I remember that first week on cloud, I'm like, I,

At first, I almost, again, went to my usual, let me go meet all the engineers and treat them to coffee.

And then I'm like, oh, wait, wait, wait, let me ask Claude.

And so Claude was this really good onboarding buddy of mine because I was curious about the code base, asking questions.

And then it also really, you know, helped me, like, you know, do the automated test.

But I also want to still do some manual testing.

And I asked Claude, hey, help me come up with, like, what's a way for me to manually test this to make sure I cover everything?

all the case, but all that then gives me confidence that, okay, I can ship peers again.