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Meta Freezes AI Hiring as Fear Spreads
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2025
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As someone working at a company seeing ~1.75x usable, clean output improvements and productivity increases due to AI adoption...part of me wonders if Meta is doing this to try and dissuade competition while secretly continuing apace.
Another part of me sees a large part of AI as a bubble that 9/10 sucks and maybe Meta is being honest.
Meta has thrown so many billions at fantastic projects that completely fail. In 20 years, what have they figured out besides selling ads and outrage?
React.js, though that may fall under "outrage"
I'm confused by your comment You start by praising AI, 75% productivity increase is immense. Then you say 9/10 of it sucks. What's the rub? Personal vs professional opinion?
Maybe the first stat is a cooked number.
Like llms are generating stuff quickly, boosting some metrics, but generating more work because it is all bullshit.
Whether AI helps you will depend heavily on your baseline, your domain, your tech stack, how you've incorporated it, your business pattern, how and whether you market it, ...
What's your business?
isnt metas AI mostly concentrated in facebook anyways?