code output was never the bottleneck, review was, so agents just moved the queue somewhere nobody was watching. small teams win here because one person still reads every diff
Meta cut 10% of its workforce in May & went all-in on AI agents.
The results are in. They're not good.
Internal Meta data, via Reuters:
- Code generated: +220% YoY
- Features actually shipped: +36%
- Major security incidents: +40%
- Time spent firefighting them: +70%
In June, hackers used Meta's own AI support bot to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts.
Including Obama's!
The plan was to cut up to 60% of teams in 2 waves & replace them with agents.
Zuckerberg cancelled wave 2 hours before wave 1 landed.
The crazy part?
Zuck was writing essays about how AI would transform the workplace where his employees were struggling with problems it created.
@EndrewBiz nobody copies your app fast enough to matter, but hiding the name also kills the one thing build in public gives you which is people remembering it
@wandering2jlm@MicroLaunchHQ validation tools are funny cause the hardest part is being honest with yourself about the answer, does NoteForge push back or just score you
zero marketing budget is not a handicap, its a filter. if your product only grows when you pay for ads you dont have a product you have a rented audience https://t.co/EMbZ5WiaND
impressions are the vanity metric everyone still brags about. 100k views with 3 signups means the audience is wrong, not big. show me revenue or its just noise