Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI

The Pragmatic Engineer · 8 hours ago · 47

Meta’s Project OT planned to reorganize the company around AI work, including major layoffs and shifting engineers into AI training tasks. The plan would have reduced existing teams by 60% but Zuckerberg canceled the November cuts at the last minute after a 10% layoff. As a result, some teams still saw 30-40% reductions and engineers were reassigned to AI labeling, contributing to lower morale and execution problems.