Meta is preparing to fire 5% of its employees. The goal is to raise the level of efficiency. According to Mark Zuckerberg’s words, it seems that these workers will not be replaced by new hires but directly by artificial intelligence.
Mark Zuckerberg released an iriver interview with Joe Rogan. In fact, Joe Rogan’s format is exactly that of the river interviews. In the beyond two hours of podcast the owner of Meta has completed a repositioning process that began when Donald Trump won the US elections.
In the podcast Zuck talked about fact-checking, the pressure from the White House during the vaccination campaign and also of how work will change in the Meta offices. Despite the decision to remove period pads from men’s bathrooms, it seems that Meta’s direction will increasingly move towards artificial intelligence.
The problem of mid-level engineers
According to an indiscretion published by Bloomberg on January 14, it seems that Meta’s goal is to lay off 5% of the workforce within the next two months. We are talking about an absolutely relevant fact. According to September data they are 72,400 people work in Metacutting 5% means giving up approximately 3,600 employees. The choice, later confirmed by France Press, aims at efficiency.
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Zuckerberg explained that he wants cut employees lowest performer: “I decided to raise the bar on performance management and weed out low-performing employees more quickly.” It is not very clear how these performances will be evaluated.
How will employees be replaced? The interesting fact concerns one of the answers given during Joe Rogan’s podcast: “It is likely that in 2025 in Meta we will have an artificial intelligence that will be able to work as a mid-level engineer who writes code.”
The prospect is interesting, and perhaps even alarming. On the one hand, an artificial intelligence that speeds up the work of computer engineers to the point of reducing the number of people needed to work in software companies and triggering a crisis in a sector that seemed flourishing. On the other hand there is the fact that the apps and sites we dedicate time to every day will be built much more by artificial intelligences than by human beings.
The full video of the interview with Joe Rogan
