Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective

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Zuckerberg admitted at a town hall that Meta's recent restructuring and focus on AI agents did not accelerate development as expected, and executives' earlier optimism about tools like Claude Code proved unfounded.
The article criticizes Meta's 'vibes-based management' as flawed and reactive, citing the metaverse as a failed bet based on the mistaken assumption that the pandemic would last indefinitely, which distracted the company from its core business.
In response to the rise of agentic coding in late 2025, Zuckerberg placed AI chief Alexandr Wang in charge, leading to mass layoffs of programmers and a shift toward AI-driven content moderation and employee surveillance, based on the incorrect belief that AI could instantly replace human workers.
The author argues that Meta's fundamental issue is not being slow to adopt trends (as in 2023 with AI) but having no coherent strategy; the recent AI-driven layoffs were misguided because AI lacked the potential to replace workers so quickly, making the management's 'vibe' entirely wrong.
The piece concludes that being fired from Meta is compared to 'catching the last plane out of Vietnam,' suggesting it might be a fortunate escape given the company's chaotic and poorly reasoned decisions.

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