Let's ignore the AI race and Meta's failed attempt to participate for a moment. What is the future of Facebook?
Vibes are seriously off. Fb is hostile both to content creators and users. Most people are there because of inertia/network effect, but it's not clear how much Meta can get away with.
Mimrock
When the people you’re trying to automate don’t get automated fast enough and now it’s awkward
Grace
So apparently after Meta leadership:
- Force reassigned some of the best devs on teams to AI data labelling fulltime
- Laid off another 10%
- Started to record every dev’s screen in the US 24/7
They now realized that it has indeed started to destroy their eng culture. And now trying to walk back