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Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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492 points Lionga | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 16:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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testfrequency ◴[22 Oct 25 17:18 UTC] No.45672233[source]▶
Sadly, the only people who would be surprised reading a statement like this would be anyone who is not ex-fb/meta
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LPisGood ◴[22 Oct 25 17:20 UTC] No.45672260[source]▶
Maybe I’m not understanding, but why is that wild? Is it just the fact that those people lost jobs? If it were a justification for a re-org I wouldn’t find it objectionable at all
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aplusbi ◴[22 Oct 25 17:50 UTC] No.45672690[source]▶
Perhaps I'm being uncharitable but this line "each person will be more load-bearing" reads to me as "each person will be expected to do more work for the same pay".
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0cf8612b2e1e ◴[22 Oct 25 17:58 UTC] No.45672815[source]▶
We’re not talking about an overworked nurse. Same Facebook-AI-researcher-pay is likely an eye watering amount of money
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1. Windchaser ◴[22 Oct 25 20:49 UTC] No.45674964[source]▶
Still, regardless of the eye-watering amount of money, there's still a maximum amount of useful work you can get out of someone. Demand too much, and you actually lower their total productivity.

(For me, I found the limit was somewhere around 70 hrs/week - beyond that, the mistakes I made negated any progress I made. This also left me pretty burnt out after about a year, so the sustainable long-term hourly work rate is lower)