Meta Cutting 600 AI Jobs to move faster(bloomberg.com)

10 pointsby gk19 ay önce7 comments

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/meta-cutting-roughly-600-ai-jobs-as-company-aims-to-move-faster

8 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45669719

https://archive.ph/gZHX3

Is this like The Mythical Man Month? If adding developers to a late project makes it later will removing them speed it up? Or does changing anything disturb progress?

renecito9 ay önce

less people but downsizing deliverables? yes

Hopefully the ones you let go are not impacting the pool of actual required skills and knowledge.

PaulHoule9 ay önce

There’s also the claim that when layoffs are looming the better people leave, even if the organization wants to retain them.

rightbyte9 ay önce

I don't think it is a reversible process.

[deleted]9 ay önce

gk19 ay önce

https://archive.fo/gZHX3

almosthere9 ay önce

makes sense - probably cost a billion per year