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    Zuckerberg Announces Layoffs After Saying Coding Jobs Will Be Replaced by AI

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    1. katxwoods on

      Submission statement: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced sweeping layoffs of what he refers to as “low-performers” at his empire.

      According to a company-wide memo [obtained by *Bloomberg*](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-14/meta-is-planning-to-cut-5-of-lowest-performers-memo-shows?sref=YfHlo0rL), the Facebook owner is cutting around five percent of its staff. And interestingly, the directive is already in tension with what Zuckerberg [told podcaster Joe Rogan](https://futurism.com/the-byte/zuckerberg-automate-coding-ai) last week about how the company was looking to replace “midlevel engineers” with AI. Instead — in a likely concession to AI just not quite being up to snuff yet — he says employees “who aren’t meeting expectations” will be replaced in order to “bring new people in” (emphasis on the “people,” for any AI zealots.)

      “I’ve decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster,” he wrote in the message, adding that terminated employees would be provided with “generous severance.”

      Zuckerberg wrote that 2025 will be an “intense year” that will require the “strongest talent.” But what exactly he means by that remains unclear as the billionaire makes sweeping changes to the company’s operations.

    2. archaeo_rex on

      Both Instagram & Facebook sucks ass already, can’t wait for the eventual collapse with ai slop code in there

    3. SilverRapid on

      No they won’t. Zuck wanted to do layoffs anyway to make the line go up and this is a nice convenient excuse.

    4. Eckkosekiro on

      If only Marketplace had an good alternative where i live, id be out of all Meta BS for good.

    5. brihamedit on

      You can almost see it happen how companies will lay off coders just to fuck with them lol.

    7. zdzislav_kozibroda on

      I genuinely wonder what stuff people work with.

      Usually AI ‘helps’ me to figure the easy stuff out at work. The kind you can just google. Max 10% work on a good day.

      90% is hard crap where information is scare or politics involved. Anyone trying to solve it with AI would lose the will to live.

    8. blazelet on

      I was addicted to Facebook. Spent so much time on it. My entire life from 2006-2020 is chronicled on there. Every event with all three kids, from birth to teen years. Every photo. Every pet come and gone. Every career win and struggle. It was my journal.

      I had a network of friends who only existed to me on Facebook. It was my only line to high school friends, college friends, etc.

      I deleted my account 3 days go. I’m done. If I can be done, you can too. Don’t deactivate, delete. We have to put this shit down, it’s causing mental harm to us as individuals and societies.

    9. artwarrior on

      Zuckerberg announced that his clone Suckerburg took over as CEO months ago and nobody noticed.

    10. paulerxx on

      A.I. is going to take so much money out of the average person’s wallet and stick in the weathly’s…As if the divide wasn’t big enough already.

      The class war is coming, and you’re on the losing side, prepare yourself mentally.

    11. TheCh0rt on

      IMO he and Musk are working together to cut staff to make Facebook lean and mean like Musk did with Twitter. The more chaos inside the company, the more chaos they can cause with right wing circles.

      I think all these platforms want left wing voices dead and gone. First step to shutting down free speech. The more chaos they cause, the more organized they get.

      I also think Zuck has a divorce coming. That’s why he’s ok with all this. Maybe we’ll hear about it within the next year.

      I’m surprised a divorce hasn’t happened sooner. He seems insufferable. Seems none of the billionaires stay married. In fact it seems they all become incels. Not sure about Bezos. He’s very secretive, like a Bond villain. Maybe it’s why he bought the franchise.

    12. Significant-Dog-8166 on

      Layoff everyone there already. They are the tech industry equivalent of coal miners.

    14. etanimod on

      I mean he has said that he wants to replace all of his junior devs with ai, with the goal of eventually replacing all devs with ai

    15. cury on

      How about we stop using products from companies who think people are obsolete? What do you think Zucky?

    16. cristobalist on

      Zuck: “I’m firing people from this shitty company. Comments, questions, concerns?”

      Lol

    18. SizzlingSpit on

      With the advent of AI, these tech corps virtue signalling Ai dependency, may actually be a sign of their downfall. The companies may brick themselves out of their own products like sonos. Zuck revitilizing his fashion to be more like logan paul is too uncanny and exactly what an alien would do.

    19. TheButtDog on

      Zuck said AI will do some engineering work. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it will replace workers.

    20. GyspySyx on

      Unfortunately this appears to be the layest trend and talking point today…coders on the chopping block.

      The first thing AI better do is scan gazillion of terabytes of code for back doors.

    21. UgarMalwa on

      Thank to you lot for training me to be a somewhat functional human, I will now be replacing all humans with clones of myself, some of you may be staying behind to help me with some recaptcha systems.

      Sincerely
      Mark Zuckerberg.

    25. Fierydog on

      There’s a VERY VERY big chance that these layoffs have absolutely nothing to do with A.I. and more to do with the Tech industry still bleeding since covid and attempting to reduce cost.

      Tech companies left and right are laying off people.

      A.I. replacing humans is still years away except for a few industries like first-level support or writing text, which is basically the only thing A.I. is really good at.

    26. ChiefStrongbones on

      Big tech companies are in a constant state of hiring and firing. They hire new talent while simultaneously getting rid of old staff. This is how they’ve operated for years, ever since Jack Welch in GE’s heyday promoted the idea of firing the bottom 10% of your workforce every year to keep a company healthy.

    27. Mephzice on

      So he can hire AI code repairmen instead? Like does this moron think AI coding is good? I’ve been testing games made with AI they are all complete mess, forget what happened on a previous scene, mess up names, characters, dates and all the stuff. He expects this to work for facebook coding?

    28. raynorelyp on

      Remember when Zuckerberg said the future was in virtual reality, poured hundreds of billions into it, and then nothing came of it? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

    30. ValenTom on

      I’ve seen it a few times in r/Layoffs. A team will be reduced by 2/3rds because coders can do the work of 3 people now. It is a real threat to coding jobs. It isn’t going to replace an entire department but your team might be cut in half if not more.

      A lot of tech workers inflated their lifestyle to match extravagant pay. After seeing layoff posts time and again, I highly recommend having a 6 month+ Emergency Fund and reduce debt to as low as possible.

    31. gortlank on

      “We’ve already milked RTO as far as it can go, we need a new excuse for layoffs that won’t panic investors.”

      Meta’s core product, Facebook, hit peak growth nearly a decade ago. They’ve reached total market saturation, and there’s no more growth to be had from new users.

      So they’ve milked growth from enshittifying the service to serve as many ads to existing users as possible. They’ve increased data collection as far as it can possibly go.

      They’ve already implemented every trick they can to juice growth, and now many of those same tactics are driving new and existing users away from the platform.

      For the time being they’re reporting growth based on millions of fake bot accounts being added every year, but even that’s barely offsetting the slowdown from saturation and enshittification, so that scam will only work for so long before investors start asking too many questions.

      That means Meta has to make cuts to keep the numbers right until they can demonstrate growth from one of their non-Facebook products, but they need to do it in a way that it doesn’t look like that’s what they’re doing.

    32. vm_linuz on

      > Zuckerberg makes a weak-ass excuse for layoffs at his shitty company in decline

      There I fixed it

    33. RadaSmada on

      When u have a 200 billion dollars and still need to find away to get rid of jobs 🔥🔥🔥🔥

    34. Yourname942 on

      There needs to be some sort of control over CEOs and their increasing gap between them and the middle/low class

    35. Opie4Prez71 on

      Mexican AI so the narrative can still apply. “It’s the immigrants taking our jobs!”

    36. DrKurgan on

      “ChatGPT, how can I lay people off without looking like our company is going down.”

      “Just say you’re using AI now.”

    37. Little-Engine6982 on

      for what? for feeds of ads, nazi propaganda, confused and dying boomers? I thought they are already doing their worst with minimal effort.

    39. bigedthebad on

      If your job can be replaced with AI, it’s probably not that great a job in the first place.

    40. wintermute306 on

      My stock post is, dont listen to a man that bet the golden goose on VR, a technology that has failed to go mainstream multiple times.

      AI, or more accurately LLMs because it isn’t AI, cannot replace programmers, they can make existing skilled programmers more efficient. However, ditching your junior talent pipeline is short-termism.