Meta AI coding fail
2026-09-10 23:18:25.752243+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Lead Dev: Meta tried to shrink engineering teams around AI — it backfired (coercive "you have 1 article left this month, register for more" tomfoolery).
Summarized by Sasha @sashag@anarres.family
„Meta thought it had cracked the future of engineering teams: shrink 10-20 person groups down to pods of 3-5, backed by AI, and let the technology carry the rest.
Code changes jumped 220% year-on-year, but features reaching users rose just 36%, while major incidents climbed 40% and firefighting time rose 70%.
The lesson is that AI can make a team produce more output without making the organization produce more value, and the right-sized team for the AI era might not be smaller at all.“
Color me surprised :blobcatjoy: