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Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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492 points Lionga | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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ceejayoz ◴[22 Oct 25 17:14 UTC] No.45672187[source]▶
Because the AI works so well, or because it doesn't?

> ”By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Wang writes in a memo seen by Axios.

That's kinda wild. I'm kinda shocked they put it in writing.

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giancarlostoro ◴[22 Oct 25 17:21 UTC] No.45672266[source]▶
I just assume they over hired. Too much hype for AI. Everyone wants to build the framework people use for AI nobody wants to build the actual tools that make AI useful.
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1. ivape ◴[22 Oct 25 17:38 UTC] No.45672509[source]▶
There is a real question of if a more productive developer with AI is actually what the market wants right now. It may actually want something else entirely, and that is people that can innovate with AI. Just about everyone can be "better" with AI, so I'm not sure if this is actually an advantage (the baselines just got lifted for all).
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2. beezlewax ◴[22 Oct 25 18:04 UTC] No.45672886[source]▶
I don't know if this is true. It's good for some things... Learning something new or hashing out a quick algorithm or function.

But I've found it leads to lazy behaviour (by me admittedly) and buggier code than before.

Everytime I drop the AI and manually write my own code it is just better.