Meta Project OT plan to replace employees with AI agents

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mc32•about 1 hour ago

Even without the presumed capable A.I. A company like Meta could shed 60% and if done with precision and not suffer greatly. Twitter showed that many companies were running bloated workforces. They have slowly shed some of the excess over the last few years. With the right decisions they could "right-size" the org down by 60% without affecting products and services much. There might be some transition where adjustments take place, but it's not like they'd collapse.

cosmicgadget•16 minutes ago

Everyone was bloated by covid incentives. Twitter showed that if you have a moat you can cut your workforce down to keeping the lights on (for the most part) at the cost of innovation and growth. Many companies have to innovate or at least turn out product revisions to stay competitive.

zhivota•about 1 hour ago

I agree, my experience working in large organizations is that there is a ton of bloat everywhere you look.

I also think it would be good for the industry, too many really talented people are tied up in these super high paying jobs at the top companies, when they could be contributing elsewhere (the "golden handcuffs" effect).

In fact it was always my assumption that companies with basically unstoppable revenue streams (Google, Facebook, Visa, etc.) were, in part, overpaying and over-hiring just to remove the top end of talent from the market completely, and reduce the risk of being disrupted from startups and smaller competitors. It's interesting that they are finally backing away from that - I imagine that the AI boom has made them feel threatened for the first time in a long time.

Meta Project OT plan to replace employees with AI agents

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