Zuckerberg's bold plan to replace Meta employees with AI has imploded

Meta abandoned its plan to cut up to 60% of its workforce through Project OT after facing significant employee resistance and discovering that AI tools failed to deliver expected productivity gains. Although the use of AI-assisted code surged by 220%, actual feature shipments only increased by 36% while technical incidents rose sharply, leading to security breaches and operational disruptions. Consequently, Meta retreated from its broader restructuring efforts despite having already executed initial layoffs in May.

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