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Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?
Meta has quickly dismantled its historically strong engineering culture by aggressively prioritizing AI initiatives, such as forcing engineers into data-labeling work, tracking employee activity, tying performance reviews to AI usage, and reducing autonomy that once made the company attractive. These changes have led to low morale, talent flight, organizational chaos, and even major security and reliability failures, including a high-profile Instagram account takeover incident allegedly linked to AI-generated and insufficiently reviewed code.
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