alt Hacker NewsWhat is Uber developing? They're an app and a car allocator back end. Both work OK. Why are they spending so much?
They gave up on self-driving, so that's not it.
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jitler • yesterday at 5:38 PM
> Both work OK
If only. The optimizations they do on their matching algorithm has made the UX so terrible, I regularly use Lyft instead now.
o10449366 • yesterday at 6:05 PM
this is the most tired hn comment ever
"X is just Y - why is it so complicated?"
its lazy and boring to read these on every thread about a disliked big company
This is a really underrated comment. It’s a great question and speaks volumes as to what the hell so many modern tech cos are actually doing with all their resource. Didn’t Elon strip most of the team at Twitter away, after some awful false starts, it pretty much ran fine on about 80% less human resource?