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• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Well this is damning and explains SO MUCH about why Meta is losing its best engineers; why morale is rock-bottom; and why an engineering culture built up in 20 years was destroyed overnight. Zuck + execs wanted to lay off ~60% of staff. When the business does better than ever.

• @lauridonahue Lauri Donahue on bluesky

  “Internal data was also suggesting that autonomous AI “agent” technology at the heart of the strategy was failing to deliver hoped-for productivity gains.  Some investors were questioning what Meta had to show for its gargantuan spending on AI.”  —  So many naked emperors...  [em…

• r/technology r on reddit

  Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI

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  Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI.  Here's how it imploded.

• @buccocapital @buccocapital on x

  Meta is the clearest example of a CEO having AI psychosis. You can't just cut 60% of the company...100% will try to leave. You'll never successfully make the jump to the AI future. As I have said repeatedly: No company openly hates their employees more than Meta

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  meta considered firing a bunch of people and replacing them with AI but didn't because it wouldn't remotely work! Feels like a huge story, and makes me wonder what the people talking about “Zuck's AI assistant” or “Meta's agents” were huffing

• @herrmanndigital David Herrmann on x

  For all of us that spend countless hours working with Meta teams and products this article helps to explain 2026 in a nutshell working with the behemoth.

• @chshersh Dmitrii Kovanikov on x

  I still remember the time, around 2015, when working at Facebook was a sign of high prestige in tech. Nowadays, I don't know a single sane person who would even consider applying at Meta.

• r/artificial r on reddit

  Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI.  Here's how it imploded.

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  Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI.  Here's how it imploded.

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  Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI.  Here's how it imploded.

• @karlbode.com Karl Bode on bluesky

  zuck sucks and I think it would be a really nice thing for the internet if this company completely collapsed

• @ross__hendricks Ross Hendricks on x

  So even the companies at the leading edge of AI research that own their own data centers can't figure out how to make “AI agents” work... and we're spending $1 trillion a year on what, exactly?

• r/DevelEire r on reddit

  Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI.  Here's how it imploded

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  Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI.  Here's how it imploded.

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  The sense inside of Meta is Zuck + the exec layer just hates employees If this was not the case, at least someone would have had the backbone to say that firing people looks good on paper, but the strength of a team + company is in the people it has https://x.com/...

• @alediaferia Alessandro Diaferia on x

  @GergelyOrosz I think the worst impact AI is having is feeding CEOs delusion that employees are just a necessary evil in their way to the chase for power, status and money

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  And look, I'm not saying you should not work for Meta. But if you work for it, ONLY do it for the money. What mission does a company have where the mission (signed off by all execs) is to fire 60% of staff? That's a mission a company caring 0% about staff, 100% about

• r/BetterOffline r on reddit

  Meta executives are AI native idiots