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

[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?

[asprinkleofsage@mastodon.social]

@m_berberich @cwebber the top men from raiders of the lost ark

[svchucko@sfba.social]

@ohmu @cwebber We should be so lucky. The problem with organizations that big is that they persist for years if not decades on sheer inertia.

[caileangallimore@mastodon.social]

@cwebber

I failed the test twice and decided to just give up.

[fedihacker@masto.es]

@cwebber Meta cancer became Metastasis.

[gbsills@social.vivaldi.net]

@cwebber Zuckerberg isn't trying to find new products, he is trying to convince investors that he is finding new products so he can sell stock and make money without needing to make a profit.

[azad@toot.community]

@cwebber Wish this news was true.
He is not admitting anything except the timing of it.
https://www.reuters.com/business/zuckerberg-says-ai-agent-development-going-slower-than-expected-2026-07-02/

[stickers@hidamari.apartments]

@cwebber This is why I became a tradie. I'm not trying to push the narrative of hurr durr college bad, but like, Jesus Christ I'm so glad I don't have to deal with this shit.

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@mawhrin @cwebber Yeah, it seems way more sympathetic to Zuck than he deserves. He's rich because FB is a river of ad money. He's bought up any competitor that might divert the river of ad money. The real reason no one wants to use the Metaverse is that he created it for the river of ad money, and didn't think about any actual human users. He's unable to create anything of actual value to anybody.

[punissuer@universeodon.com]

@Fedihacker @cwebber if they cooperate with ICE, they become Meta Stasi…

[fedihacker@masto.es]

@punissuer @cwebber mmmmhhhhh noooooooo

[canleaf@mastodon.social]

@Amgine @cwebber He created and bought up networks and messages to make billions dependent and addicted... This is another level of psychology.

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@cwebber “The most pertinent example of the former is the ill-fated metaverse, which was developed solely on the (unbelievable) whim that the pandemic would last forever — or at least far longer than it actually did — and people would become accustomed to replacing in-person interaction with virtual reality””…”

It was nuts to think people would prefer to put on an expensive headset to have cartoon versions of their heads & torsos interact with other cartoons instead of just opening Zoom.

[hub@cosocial.ca]

@CStamp @cwebber the worst in that statement is that Meta was also very strong at dismissing the pandemic and forcing their own workers to return to the office "because it foster collaboration".

[cstamp@mastodon.social]

@hub @cwebber Yeah, if he couldn’t manage collaborations with the thing he wanted others to use, it didn’t have a hope.

[hipsauerkraut@social.vivaldi.net]

@cwebber Whatever he might say, ZUCK SUCKZ