Meta Project OT plan to replace employees with AI agents

I don't really know what the fuck they were thinking with this one.

Imagine this: you're in a little hellhole that tries to force you to work 7 days a week. You have to convince yourself that the work is worthwhile.

Then all of a sudden, the leadership says (out loud) that they're going to track your keystrokes to figure out how to automate your job, then fire you. Also, they're forcing 10% of the company to leave their current position (which they might be highly specialized in, PhDs even) to do data labeling grunt work so they can accomplish this.

First off, why would you (the hypothetical employee) want to do any good work for these people? It creates an outright antagonistic relationship between the company and its employees. Here's what was going through my head: "I need to get out of here, RIGHT NOW".

The fact that they had the audacity to do all of this planning at a Hawaii offsite just rubs salt in the wound to be honest.

Zuck would be the richest man on the planet if he had just let someone else take over 15 years 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.

> While the company was pulling back from its most aggressive workforce reduction plans, Zuckerberg was building something for himself.

> He has been using a personal AI agent, described internally as a “CEO agent,” that allows him to retrieve answers he would typically have to go through multiple layers of staff to get, Euronews reported.

I don't know why I found this hilarious. Like what problem is the AI solving here that makes it revolutionary, break down the stupid 50 level chain of command that you yourself created? Like did he really think he could replace the C suite with an AI agent? If so, dude probably went through his own AI pyschosis period