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Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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492 points Lionga | 10 comments | 22 Oct 25 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 1.387s | source | bottom
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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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Lionga ◴[22 Oct 25 17:33 UTC] No.45672436[source]▶
Maybe because there are just very few really useful AI tools that can be made?

Few tools are ok with sometimes right, sometimes wrong output.

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1. logtrees ◴[22 Oct 25 17:59 UTC] No.45672819[source]▶
There are N useful AI tools that can be made.
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2. lazide ◴[22 Oct 25 18:05 UTC] No.45672904[source]▶
Where N is less than infinity.
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3. logtrees ◴[22 Oct 25 18:10 UTC] No.45672965[source]▶
Is it known that there are fewer than infinity tools?
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4. lazide ◴[22 Oct 25 18:19 UTC] No.45673094{3}[source]▶
For any given time period N, if it takes > 0 time or effort to make a tool, then there are provably less possible tools than infinity for sure.

If we consider time period of length infinity, then it is less clear (I don’t have room in the margins to write out my proof), but since near as we can tell we don’t have infinity time, does it matter?

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5. jobigoud ◴[22 Oct 25 18:40 UTC] No.45673365{3}[source]▶
I would assume that for any given tool you could make a "tool maker" tool.
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6. ModernMech ◴[22 Oct 25 20:59 UTC] No.45675070{4}[source]▶
You make a tool, then a tool factory, then a tool factory factory, ad infinitum.
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7. kridsdale1 ◴[22 Oct 25 22:03 UTC] No.45675723{4}[source]▶
There is no ASML toolmaker maker.
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8. logtrees ◴[22 Oct 25 22:15 UTC] No.45675854{5}[source]▶
Not yet, but could there be?
9. logtrees ◴[22 Oct 25 22:16 UTC] No.45675857{5}[source]▶
Sprinkle in minimization and virtualization and it's extremely cool!
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