Oh whoops laying off your engineers and replacing them with AI didn't work out?

[cwebber@social.coop]

Oh whoops laying off your engineers and replacing them with AI didn't work out? You lost all the goodwill of your remaining employees and the skill of the ones who left? Poor baby, who could have done this to you https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/07/03/zuckerberg-admits-metas-layoffs-were.html

[kats@chaosfem.tw]

@cwebber Now, cue up Steely Dan and go back, Jack: do it again.

[phillycodehound@indieweb.social]

@cwebber Yea... fuck Zuck

[suzannealdrich@hachyderm.io]

@cwebber happy Cambridge Analytica Revenge Day, for all who celebrate

[mungencakes@kolektiva.social]

@cwebber stick_in_spokes.jpg

[amgine@mamot.fr]

@cwebber

The reality is M Zuckerberg never got through his undergrad before being encourage [by whom?] to drop out and be a rich CEO instead of getting the training and experience to be a successful CEO.

Any lottery winner can be a rich CEO. It takes rather more to be a successful one.

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@cwebber ooh this tea is better than his coffee

#b3d

[mawhrin@circumstances.run]

@cwebber the funniest parts is that the author of the blog believes that zuckerberg was just holding the llms wrong (“AI-assisted programming has developed in the last six months — contrary to Zuckerberg’s claim that it ‘hasn’t really accelerated’ — but indeed not in the way Meta expected, because Meta’s vibes-based management this time was just plain wrong. AI never had the potential to replace so many workers at an instant.”)

[undead@masto.hackers.town]

@cwebber

M O O D

[kevingranade@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cwebber
I have:
A collection wildly popular social media networks, none of which have done anything remotely interesting in a decade, are universally derided as a plague upon humanity, and don't actually make money.
A completely brain dead "big idea" no one wants that I keep pumping billions of dollars into.
5 tech pyramid schemes in a tenchcoat.
No engineering staff.
Please help me balance my budget my family is starving.

[m_berberich@infosec.exchange]

@cwebber

Conversations he was having “with our top people” when they started planning the restructuring in January and February “were that they were worried that we weren’t going to move fast enough to adapt,” Zuckerberg said.

Maybe this top people where not so top at all?

#ai

[faoluin@chitter.xyz]

@cwebber Filling up my coffee cup with Zuck Tears today.

[verenarupp@social.vivaldi.net]

@cwebber Who could have seen that coming

[luk@mamot.fr]

@cwebber @EshuMarneedi I'm reading "Careless people" by a former Facebook Exec, and Zuck seems both not to be very smart, but also has a big "I'm the main character and you don't really matter" syndrome

[hans@social.woefdram.nl]

@Christine Lemmer-Webber Nice, let's hope this whole Evil Empire will crash and burn.

I can’t tell if Zuckerberg is dimwitted or just evil.

Not sure about the "or"...

[joelvanderwerf@mastodon.social]

@cwebber Explaining to the boss why the project isn't done yet, "the trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really accelerated in the way that we expected."

[chris_evelyn@fedi.chris-evelyn.de]

@cwebber This together with the fact that they are trying to rent out their excess compute capacity paints quite an interesting picture

[ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us]

@cwebber
I'll laugh when all this incompetence finally means Meta disappearing from the world and Zuckerberg on the way to actual poverty.
It continues to be one of the most powerful entities on the planet. Zuck owns a big chunk of Palo Alto outright. And Kauai.

[dalekmad@mastodon.ie]

@cwebber and still trying to brand laid off employees as the lowest performing, harming their job hunt?

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@cwebber

he wasted billions on a virtual reality where the avatars were Weebles (no legs), wasted vast amounts on AI for no gain. when does the tech press finally admit this guy shouldn't be in charge of a takeout order, much less a massive corporation?