Photos team needs a reset. I've decided not to hand it off to a new manager post-F8 but stick around through Snap shipping in order to effect that reset rather than leave it as a job for the next manager. I'd like to get the photos team into a steady pace where we can both deliver new projects and also steadily optimize key photos metrics (uploads, tags, bug counts, code quality.)

Snap still has no target ship date. None of it's rocket science but we're hampered by not having a single experienced iOS developer, so every engineer on the project is climbing the learning curve. We're about to have 4 engineers + 2 interns allocated to Snap. We don't need any more warm bodies, but we could really use at least one knowledgeable iOS developer to make sure this group of well-intentioned noobs doesn't build another body of code we'll live to regret. Zuck is anxious for the snap app (mainly motivated by a desire to slow down Instagram's growth); I don't think we are higher priority than the 4.0 mobile app but hoping that post-4.0 we are the next highest priority for iOS devs.

Zuck cranky about lack of progress on snap and doesn't consider it worthwhile to tradeoff speed on Snap for investment in building a team that can build more Snaps in the future. I'm choosing to interpret this as feedback calculated to extract maximum output from me & photos team rather than literally not seeing the forest for the trees.