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Are you working on a team? I've found that for solo projects this works but, even when you own the design of your piece, integrating with the work of several people doing this ultimately leads to even the part you initially designed no longer working exactly as you remember it.
A good chunk of my time now is spend working with an LLM to understand how other parts of the code base work and how they relate to and interact with the product features I manage. But I'm still on a small enough team that this is possible. I'm not surprised at all that an engineer at an org the size of Meta would not even be able to perform this level of work in understanding what's happening.
Yes this is on a team that I lead. We have augmented our practice so that teams do the design reviews together to ensure we are all understanding the changes. It’s also helped uplevel devs to think in terms of design practices.
It still has sharp edges but IMO it’s the best we have at the moment, and it works. It also means we deliver larger volumes of code, but we mostly look for alignment with the original review — so our reviews are more focused on what tests say behavior should be